Home Health Line
03/30/2009
CMS updates Home Health Compare. The percent of patients whose wounds improved or healed after an operation improved to 80% - up 1 percentage point - in the March Home Health Compare
03/30/2009
This Billing Operations Performance Dashboard, courtesy of Aaron Little of BKD Health Care Group, Springfield, Mo., shows users their average days on accounts/receivable, cash-flow and bad debt write-offs, and how that compares to their projected goals.
03/30/2009
Hospital-based agencies have a higher percentage of low-utilization payment adjustment (LUPA) episodes and higher costs – two of several factors that lower their profit margins compared with freestanding HHAs.
03/23/2009
Just one quarter of home health agency executives say they have “strong” sales skills, according to HHL’s recent executive skills survey.
03/23/2009
CMS has released another version of the OASIS-C document, which will require retraining efforts to get clinicians up to speed.
03/23/2009
Last year, the marketer working for Universal Home Health & Hospice in rural Bellefontaine, Ohio, got an office of her own for the first time. It was one of the benefits
03/23/2009
Comments at a House hearing indicate lawmakers could well endorse the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission’s call for a 5.5% reduction in Medicare’s 2010 home health rates.
03/23/2009
Are you scrambling to find enough therapists to deliver the visits your patients need?
03/16/2009
Your agency may be fully compliant with the HIPAA privacy rules, but it happens HIPAA no longer is the final word on guarding patient information.
03/16/2009
Agencies continue to get dinged in state surveys for care-planning and acceptance-of-care deficiencies, the latest CMS data show.

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