Home Health Line
08/17/2009
Leaving visit notes in a patient’s home may be a tempting way for clinicians to communicate with each other, ensure continuity of care and avoid duplicating services on multi-disciplinary cases.
08/17/2009
Most preventive medicine ideas, including ones that might have a role for home health, have received another dose of Congressional Budget Office (CBO) skepticism.
08/17/2009
CMS corrects wage index in republished rule. Agencies that calculated next year’s budgets using the wage index tables published Aug. 6 as part of the 2010 PPS proposed rule will
08/17/2009
The reintroduction of the pro-union Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA) in the new Congress is only the start of the upheaval private duty soon will experience. A host of new
08/17/2009
Turn away from banks and credit card companies and look to alternative financing to sustain and even grow your company in this tough economy.
08/17/2009
The numbers tell the truth about your business. Peter Ross, CEO of Senior Helpers Franchising, based in Towson, Md., has provided a sample scorecard to help your company regularly measure
08/17/2009
Free lunches for physicians and their office staff with the hope of garnering referrals continues to be a no-no in Florida – unless an agency can prove that it would be
08/17/2009
Show referral sources a binder detailing your specialty program’s care protocols, assessment strategies and outcome goals and your agency could win new referrals.
08/10/2009
Under provisions aimed at stemming outlier fraud, CMS’s proposed PPS changes would create new groups of home health agency winners and losers, especially in Florida.
08/10/2009
Agencies could be required to pay an estimated $2,400 a year to collect patient-satisfaction data through a vendor starting in 2010.

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