Home Health Line
02/02/2009
CMS officials have admitted at least one mistake in the recently released Attachment D coding guidance. The Neuro 3 case-mix category, which deals with strokes, was incorrectly listed as one
02/02/2009
Create an interactive online job application and you could increase your volume of candidates by 50% in just one year.
02/02/2009
Give your managers this tool to track their clinicians’ performance, and you could boost productivity.
02/02/2009
A decrease in monthly referrals has pushed agencies to make almost three more in-person marketing visits to referral sources per day than they did four years ago, new data show.
01/26/2009
Two Alabama nurses who filed qui tam whistleblower suits alleging extensive Medicare fraud by SouthernCare, a 15-state hospice provider, will be richer by more than $1.5 million each under a
01/26/2009
The National Association for Home Care & Hospice’s latest profit figures could make lawmakers think twice before making future payment cuts.
01/26/2009
Agencies have two more years – until October 2013 – to adopt ICD-10 code sets after many comments urged more time to implement the new codes and related software prompted a compliance-date
01/26/2009
More agencies are reducing billing accounts receivable (A/R) and saving clinical managers’ time with dashboard reports specific to these job responsibilities.
01/26/2009
Saint Francis Home Health uses this tracking sheet and improved the percentage of clinicians meeting its productivity standard to more than 80% from 35%, says Tecla Webber, director of the Tulsa, Okla., agency.
01/26/2009
As agencies eliminate clerical staff to cope with the economic downturn, it has become important for managers to track clinicians’ productivity to maintain the balance between visit averages and quality

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