Home Health Line
08/03/2009
Medical spending on diabetes and other diseases associated with obesity has doubled in the past 10 years to about $147 billion annually. Federal researchers who reported the growth in outlays
08/03/2009
Create a list of medications that include acetaminophen. This could become an invaluable tool for clinicians as you work to comply with dosage limitations from the Food and Drug Administration’s advisory committee. Here’s a sample list compiled from sites, such as familydoctor.com, medline.com and WebMD.com.
07/27/2009
For busy clinicians who use point-of-care devices, copying old notes and pasting them into current charts can be a powerful temptation.
07/27/2009
Good Shepherd Home Health and Hospice Agency shows this laminated sheet to referral sources to help them understand the differences between patients appropriate for hospice and home health.
07/27/2009
The mandate for employer-provided health coverage under health care reform bills pending in the House and Senate threatens to hit many HHAs as hard as or harder than the Medicare
07/27/2009
A pro-hospice provision included in the health care reform bill cleared by the House Ways & Means Committee on July 17 would postpone CMS’s controversial change in the hospice wage index
07/27/2009
Palmetto conducts hospice probe reviews. About 20% of hospice providers billing to regional home health intermediary Palmetto GBA will receive probe reviews for longer non-cancer lengths-of-stay, a Palmetto spokesman says.
07/27/2009
HHAs fear double-digit profit slumps, the need for salary freezes in 2009 and a forced reduction in visits per episode as a result of home health proposals in the bill
07/27/2009
Your agency’s medical director could be a secret weapon to ensure that physicians refer patients to hospice at the correct time.
07/20/2009
Transitional care, a method of reducing re-hospitalizations that could be less traumatic for the home health industry than bundled post-acute care payments, has found a toehold in the first health

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