Home Health Line
05/25/2009
Agencies say CMS’s efforts to speed up the advanced beneficiary notice (ABN) process won’t help.
05/25/2009
You thought building a telehealth business case for home health patients was difficult. Try making that case for hospice patients.
05/25/2009
Getting her executive certification helped Bonnie Mello, home care director for Roper St. Francis Home Care in Charleston, S.C., improve her agency’s referral rate and build her agency’s telehealth program.
05/25/2009
Home health anti-fraud task forces are expanding their efforts to Houston and Detroit, the Justice Department and HHS announced May 20.
05/18/2009
Hospital control of the Medicare dollars to pay for certain home health patients could be further off than first thought, given strong hospital industry reservations.
05/18/2009
Greater reliance on home health for newly discharged hospital patients with primary or secondary diagnoses of diabetes, COPD and CHF could save Medicare billions on period-of-care costs and readmissions.
05/18/2009
Agencies that have programs set up to administer seasonal flu shots may be well-positioned to distribute a possible H1N1 vaccine.
05/18/2009
New legislation in Oregon, which would require agencies to pay nurses on an hourly or salary basis, could one day lead to increased visit and labor costs for agencies nationwide.
05/18/2009
One agency has become a winner in outcomes improvement and employee satisfaction by keeping score on its managers’ performance.
05/18/2009
Providers now have until Aug. 1 to comply with the Federal Trade Commission’s Red Flags Rule.

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