Home Health Line
12/14/2009
An agency’s journey to improve rehospitalization rates using a new predictive modeling program led it down an unexpected path with many positive outcomes.
12/14/2009
CMS announces two timelines for publicly reporting OASIS-C measures. CMS will publicly report OASIS-C process measures on Home Health Compare for the first time in October 2010 (HHL 08/10/09). However,
12/14/2009
Use this form from Clearfield (Pa.) Hospital Home Health Services to help clinicians gather information needed to complete the OASIS-C process measures. Clinicians should check the relevant interventions and fax the form to physicians to confirm them.
12/14/2009
by: Barbara Akst
The first 30 seconds of your initial contact with prospective clients can make or break the sale.
12/14/2009
Contracts preventing clients from hiring away your caregivers are commonplace in the private duty industry, but many of them, including yours, may be unenforceable.
12/14/2009
The transfer OASIS form may have been a breeze for clinicians to complete in the past, but agencies fear the new OASIS-C version could take clinicians up to 90 minutes
12/07/2009
One side effect of health care reform could be that fewer Medicaid agencies will be able to participate in state home and community-based care programs.
12/07/2009
CMS isn’t offering agencies any wiggle room if they exceed the outlier cap, which will be 10% of total Medicare payments, starting Jan. 1.
12/07/2009
Hospices could receive smaller Medicare overpayment demands related to the hospice cap if federal district court decisions in Los Angeles and Oklahoma City are upheld by higher courts.
12/07/2009
One Minnesota HHA recently experienced an agency’s worst nightmare – one of its clinicians died in a car crash on her way to work.

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