Home Health Line
04/05/2010

A small agency should count it’s patients carefully to determine if it qualifies for an exemption from CMS’s upcoming CAHPS requirements.

04/05/2010
In a recent advisory, investment firm Stifel Nicolaus changed its recommendations from “buy” to “hold” for Amedisys, and called immediate prospects for home health “clouded.”
04/05/2010
Increases in visit weights for start-of-care and discharge visits were the most popular changes, according to 183 responses to HHL’s 2010 productivity survey (see below for more). Agencies say those
03/29/2010

President Barack Obama has signed into law a health care reform package that puts off the phase-in of PPS rebasing until 2014 and mandates billions less in home health cuts

03/29/2010

When Idaho Home Health and Hospice received 21 denials worth an estimated $60,000 a few months ago, the agency fought back on all of them and has won 19 reversals

03/29/2010

Is your agency looking to grow through acquisitions? Be careful: The usual due diligence may not be enough.

03/29/2010

Create an online calendar of your nursing and therapy visits, and you could prevent an interruption in patient care in case of an emergency.

03/29/2010

It’s cost report season again for many home health agencies. Agencies and Medicare-certified hospices with a fiscal year ending on Dec. 31, 2009, need to file a cost report by

03/29/2010

Bundled Medicare payments could lead to higher premiums. The increased market power of hospitals and physician allies could result in higher premiums under the bundled payment models proposed as part

03/29/2010
It may be less expensive to mail CMS’s standard patient-satisfaction survey, but that method might not get you the most responses.

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