Home Health Line
05/04/2009
San Diego Hospice moved to online time cards, cutting down to eight hours from 48 hours the time the payroll department once spent auditing and entering time-card information – an 80%
05/04/2009
Florida has added more heft to its laws aimed at curbing home health and medical equipment fraud. New enforcement measures include caps on issuance of new HHA licenses in certain
05/04/2009
Give your clinicians a tool to make sure they have patients demonstrate functional abilities during start-of-care assessments, and your agency could become a member of the HomeCare Elite, the top
04/27/2009
Many agencies are experiencing an unaccustomed phenomenon: More RN applicants than positions to fill.
04/27/2009
In what may be a first step toward publicly reporting hospice quality data, Florida hospices are voluntarily submitting family satisfaction data for consumers’ use.
04/27/2009
CMS’s proposed changes to the 2010 hospice wage index call for a 75% cut in the budget neutrality adjustment factor (BNAF). The federal agency also proposed a requirement for a
04/27/2009
Use telehealth to negotiate better payments from Medicare Advantage plans, and your agency could see up to $420 more per episode.
04/27/2009
Advertising may be one of the lowest priorities on many HHAs’ marketing to-do lists. But it can be a solid business driver.
04/27/2009
Try a new technology called a “virtual server” and you could increase your processing capacity and cut costs.
04/20/2009
There are signs that incentives for referrals are trumping good outcomes when referral sources choose where to send patients, recent survey results show. All of this could compromise patient’s free

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