Home Health Line
09/07/2009
Agencies need to take steps now to improve patient-satisfaction scores so they’re ready when CMS publicly reports them.
09/07/2009
The threat of an H1N1 outbreak this fall has forced some agencies to start their seasonal flu vaccine clinics earlier.
09/07/2009
The government is likely to give H1N1 vaccines free of charge to providers who help immunize patients, according to new guidance released this week from CMS.
09/07/2009
You could lose $18,000 or more a year if you don’t have a color-coded map of your contract therapists’ designated territories.
09/07/2009
Two DME issues approved for RAC review. CMS has approved two DME issues that will be the focus of review by Connolly healthcare, recovery audit contractor for Region C. The
09/07/2009
This table corrects data that ran in the Aug. 31, 2009, issue of HHL in which the labels for the aide and MSW columns were switched. The OCS data represent 300,000 episodes that ended in the first quarter of 2009.
09/07/2009
Your agency could cut its marketing costs by using an outside marketer instead of hiring its own.
08/31/2009
Here’s a new concern for agencies that equip clinicians with laptops or hand-held-devices: A privacy breach-notification rule just made final by HHS means any HHA that hasn’t encrypted patient information
08/31/2009
All home health staffers in New York state will be required to get a seasonal flu vaccine before Nov. 30, a move that other states could follow.
08/31/2009
CMS has released an updated version of the Abt Associates analysis that underlies its controversial case-mix adjustments – a step the National Association for Home Care & Hospice believes could help in

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