Home Health Line
04/12/2010
Tired of lecture-style OASIS-C training? Try having your educators and clinicians act out what happens between clinicians and patients during an OASIS-C admission visit.
04/12/2010

A St. Louis HHA’s unusual federal court challenge of an episode payment denial is demonstrating the importance of documenting a patient’s homebound status.

04/12/2010

Buried in the new health care reform law is some bad news for home health marketers: a shortened period of time for physicians to seek payment for past care plan

04/12/2010

CMS administrator to be named soon. President Barack Obama intends to nominate Harvard Medical School professor Donald Berwick, MD to the top CMS job. That suggests that CMS will be

04/12/2010
Agencies may have more time to prepare for recovery audit contractors (RACs) than previously thought.
04/12/2010
Home health clinicians in rural areas drive an average of 14 miles more per day than clinicians in urban areas.
04/05/2010
Health care reform finally is here – and so are its provisions that could mean tax credits for small agencies that offer employee health insurance. But ambiguities in the provisions open
04/05/2010
Home health agencies across the country are finding ways to stave off the productivity declines caused by new OASIS-C requirements.
04/05/2010
Agencies are getting a clearer picture of where they need to focus ongoing clinician and auditor training – and it varies by discipline.
04/05/2010
Make sure your OASIS-C quality assurance auditors know that M2002 (medication follow-up) requires a physician response within one calendar day for the clinician to answer “yes.”

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