Home Health Line
03/15/2010

Home health agencies that are turning to chronic-disease management to improve care and reduce hospitalizations should be sure to include a sometimes overlooked discipline – social workers.

03/15/2010

Agencies that are closely tracking outlier payments to avoid exceeding CMS’s new 10% cap may want to check out a new screen available on their regional home health intermediaries’ Web

03/15/2010

Hospices should report all calls related to the patient’s terminal illness, even if those calls aren’t made to patients or family members.

03/15/2010

Continued use of 2009 physicians rates until Oct. 1, 2010, seems likely. The new extension – part of a catch-all bill approved by the Senate but yet to be approved by

03/15/2010

To prepare for CMS’s new standardized Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (CAHPS) surveys, Arizona-based Heritage Home Healthcare & Hospice has implemented a post-admission questionnaire that’s given to patients a week after admission.

03/15/2010
Clinicians often struggle to determine whether wounds require skilled care. That confusion could result in medical necessity denials and could cost your agency entire episode payments – an average of $2,200.
03/08/2010

Home health agencies take note: Lost and stolen laptops and portable electronic devices figure prominently in a recently released HHS list of patient-information breaches affecting more than 500 patients.

03/08/2010

A recent court case that cost one New Hampshire hospital more than $33,000 underscores the importance of home health agencies checking the Office of Inspector General’s exclusion list before they

03/08/2010
Imagine using technology that would allow you to monitor patients through webcams and motion sensors that detect when patients are in danger or have fallen, for instance.
03/08/2010
The most recent Medicare Payment Advisory Commission report to Congress is a generous dose of bad news for the home health industry.

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