Home Health Line
02/16/2009
As tough economic times force agencies to find creative ways to ease the burden of skilled nursing facilities and other referral sources, attorneys suggest ways to avoid violating the anti-kickback
02/16/2009
Agencies could reduce low-utilization payment adjustments (LUPAs) by evaluating patients with a primary diagnosis of atherosclerosis, one of the 10 diagnoses with the highest LUPA rates.
02/09/2009
The recession has prompted some agencies to create new financial incentives for referrals.
02/09/2009
Home health agencies are starting to see more addition documentation requests (ADRs) and focused medical reviews by their intermediaries for suspected improper therapy use.
02/09/2009
When it comes to educating therapists about the financial impact of the visits they make, agencies are torn over how much detail to provide.
02/09/2009
The economic stimulus bill now before Congress would mandate a nationwide health records system to foster more accurate – and lower-cost – patient care, but many home health agencies are likely to
02/09/2009
Agencies that have waited for thousands of dollars in corrected payments on “late”-episode claims paid as “early” episodes and eight other PPS-related claims-processing issues might have to wait longer.
02/02/2009
With state deficits mounting at the same time thousands of newly unemployed workers are applying for Medicaid coverage, today’s economic hard times soon could hit the bottom lines of HHAs
02/02/2009
The home health licensure amendments Florida adopted in 2008 have chilled growth in the number of new agency applications.
02/02/2009
Could Florida’s new licensure amendments survive a legal challenge?

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