Home Health Line
05/03/2010
For surgical wounds that are healing with the help of staples, tape or sutures, clinicians should stick to two responses for OASIS-C case-mix question M1342 (status of most problematic [observable]
05/03/2010

One Wisconsin agency thinks it has discovered a way to prepare for its next Joint Commission survey by using CMS’s standardized patient-satisfaction tool. But adding to the tool would have

05/03/2010

GAO report shows payment delays during MAC transitions. An accelerated schedule to transition from previous Medicare intermediaries to Medicare Administrative Contractors (MACs) led to payment delays for providers, including physicians

05/03/2010
One side effect of OASIS-C: It’s causing some home health agencies to hire staff as a way to maintain productivity, despite the still slumping economy.
04/26/2010

The chance of home health or private duty agencies being visited by one of Uncle Sam’s wage-and-hour investigators has increased with a Labor Department announcement that it has added 250

04/26/2010
During a compliance-audit interview, Home Health Care of East Tennessee discovered that one of its contract employees was exposing the agency to the risk of a HIPAA violation by transmitting
04/26/2010

CMS released 121 new ICD-9-CM diagnoses codes that will take effect Oct. 1, and eight of those new codes could be case-mix codes that will affect home health reimbursement.

04/26/2010

Home health agencies continue to submit faulty cost reports, exposing the industry to the threat of more payment cuts, experts warn.

04/26/2010
Agencies have 60 days or until the due date of a corresponding cost report, whichever is later, to return overpayments under the health care reform law.
04/26/2010

Can home health aides be forced to waive their right to the $7.25 an hour federal minimum wage or to 150% overtime pay if the employer hiring them refuses to

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