Home Health Line
03/09/2009
Home health agencies can shave hours of time off of scheduling, intake and discharge planning by making creative use of instant messaging (IM) and text messaging.
03/09/2009
Fewer than 40% of home health executives ranked themselves as “strong” in areas such as accounting, budgeting and financial planning. And those scores are several percentage points below HHL’s first
03/09/2009
Home Care of Rochester (N.Y.) learned that its Hispanic patients took an average of 14 medications a day, prompting the agency to create this tool to help patients track their medications.
03/02/2009
If theft or plain carelessness causes your agency to lose a laptop loaded with unencrypted patient information, better brace for much stricter HIPAA enforcement than has occurred until now.
03/02/2009
Hospital-based agencies are stepping up their marketing efforts to boost Medicare referrals, and some freestanding agencies are feeling more threatened by these competitors than usual.
03/02/2009
Oakwood Home Care increased its referrals from thoracic surgeons at its parent hospital to 80% of its surgeon’s patients from 10% in one year by stressing the agency’s specialty programs
03/02/2009
Social networking sites have enabled agencies to get business from high school friends, partner with competitors and provide education to thousands of potential clients with the click of a mouse.
03/02/2009
No surprise: The government disagrees with National Association for Home Care & Hospice arguments for halting the case mix-related reductions in Medicare’s 2009 and 2010 home health payments.
03/02/2009
Home health agencies that recruit marketers from other industries could benefit from the recession and recent layoffs, which have left quality marketers without jobs.
02/23/2009
Starting March 1 in many states, recovery audit contractors for the first time will be seeking patient records from home health agencies and hospices as the RACs’ hunt for Medicare

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