Home Health Line
02/01/2010

HHAs be warned: A state attorney general is acting on new power to enforce laws protecting patients’ health information, and others could follow, bringing stricter HIPAA enforcement to home health

02/01/2010

The sandwich lunches some Florida agencies continue to offer physician practices and other referral sources could be illegal under Florida’s strict home health licensing law, but that doesn’t mean the

02/01/2010

Agencies commonly give competency tests to clinicians, but one agency now gives them to its patients.

02/01/2010
Look beyond traditional referral sources and you could rev up referrals by as much as 15% a year.
01/25/2010

There’s a strong possibility that the Jan. 19 upset by Massachusetts Republican Scott Brown in the Senate race has killed the chance for broad health care reform legislation this year.

01/25/2010
The Detroit area’s latest case of home health fraud offers a lesson for law-abiding HHAs: If a patient referred to your agency says, “No thanks, I’m sticking with the agency
01/25/2010
MedPAC has no way to assess hospice quality of care, because there’s no publicly available data that covers all hospices. But that could change soon.
01/25/2010
With education and guidance, your physical therapists can perform the medication reviews that are part of OASIS-C, saving your agency the $100 it might pay a nurse for a non-billable
01/25/2010

Participation in the CMS pay-for-performance demonstration project earned one agency a check for $33,000.

01/25/2010

Changing your company’s mandatory nurse preceptor program into a voluntary one might be the way to slow employee turnover.

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