Home Health Line
06/29/2009
A draft health care reform bill by top House Democrats is more evidence that HHAs are headed for landmark changes in how Medicare pays them.
06/29/2009
Mercy Homecare’s clinicians save 15 minutes during admission visits by having patients sign a single form that acknowledges several other forms were received and explained.
06/29/2009
A five-year federal prison sentence for a Pasadena, Calif., woman accused of illegally recruiting home health patients is another sign of the government’s battle against Medicare fraud. But some agency
06/29/2009
Request an extension to review your files when you receive a record request from the Recovery Audit Contractors, because you may have reason to fight the alleged overpayment.
06/29/2009
CMS computer glitch delayed Home Health Compare update. On June 18, CMS announced that it updated its Home Health Compare Web site, but a computer glitch prevented the new scores
06/29/2009
Mercy Homecare’s tool can shave 15 minutes from your clinicians’ admission visits. The tool requires a single patient signature indicating that he or she received 22 forms and booklets that otherwise would have required individual signatures.
06/29/2009
Extend the hours that your agency’s schedulers are available to assign visits and you could increase visits, improve clinician satisfaction and cut overtime costs.
06/22/2009
There’s another reason to believe pending health care reform legislation could change hospital and physician referrals to home health. It’s called the “accountable care organization” (ACO).
06/22/2009
If you think the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) has too much influence over payments, just wait.
06/22/2009
Here are other areas that the RACs could target, speculates Ann Rambusch, director of home health education for DecisionHealth in Gaithersburg, Md.Medical necessity. Medical necessity was a key focus during

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