Home Health Line
03/08/2010

For one agency, successfully implementing its software program meant re-interviewing its clinicians to determine computer skills and proficiency.

03/08/2010

CPO rates could be delayed until the end of March. Physicians’ care plan oversight (CPO), certification and recertification rates for 2010 now could be delayed until March 31 or even

03/08/2010
Agencies need to turn their attention to CMS’s new patient-satisfaction survey or risk losing future inflation updates.
03/01/2010
The CMS rule that bars even minor changes in HHA ownership within 36 months of Medicare certification or purchase is confirming fears that it will stymie ordinary arrangements between agency
03/01/2010

Increased competition in the hospice market is prompting some home health agencies to hire marketers to focus solely on generating hospice referrals.

03/01/2010

CMS efforts to tighten its recovery audit contractor (RAC) program procedures mean a greater likelihood of government action against any Medicare fraud that a RAC uncovers.

03/01/2010

Two years ago, Visiting Nurse Association of Staten Island Executive Vice President Audrey Penney noticed a trend: About two nurses a year missed work as the result of injuries suffered

03/01/2010

Improved communications technology allows clinicians to stay in the field longer – but that may have drawbacks.

03/01/2010

Claims with more than 20 therapy visits receiving incorrect payments. Regional home health intermediary Cahaba GBA reports a processing issue for claims with more than 20 therapy visits submitted on

02/22/2010
A U.S. District Court has exempted attorneys from the Federal Trade Commission’s Red Flags Rule, and that could pave the way for similar exemptions for health care providers.

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