Home Health Line
08/31/2009
The economic downturn has caused financial distress for family caregivers, and some HHAs are helping patients by providing more social support services and charity visits.
08/31/2009
HHA owners plead guilty to pay-for-referral schemes. Two of the six Detroit-area HHA owners accused earlier this year of participating in one of the largest home health pay-for-referrals schemes ever
08/31/2009
The average number of social work visits per episode for the 30 most common HHRGs has increased dramatically.
08/24/2009
You’re not in our network, and we won’t pay you.
08/24/2009
Texas HHAs are finding that a unique Home Health Insurance Cooperative linking in-network and outof- network agencies cushions the consequences of having a Medicare private fee-for-service plan enrollee referred when
08/24/2009
Start working now with your software vendors to be in compliance with CMS’s patient-satisfaction requirement, which could take effect in 2010.
08/24/2009
Here’s how to save money on insurance premiums: Ensure that workers’ compensation plans clearly indicate who cares directly for patients and who does not.
08/24/2009
New York state HHAs and other providers have pushed through a landmark managed care bill that shortens pre-authorization periods, reduces billing times and improves provider appeal rights.
08/24/2009
Pay for performance is increasingly certain of a permanent place in the Medicare landscape. That’s one indirect message in an Aug. 17 CMS report that three P4P demonstrations are showing
08/17/2009
CMS has approved seven audit issues that one recovery audit contractor (RAC) will use as a target for requesting overpayments for outpatient physician and hospital claims.

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