Home Health Line
01/19/2009
You could see new measures for patient satisfaction on Home Health Compare by next year. But they could cost you.
01/19/2009
Say goodbye to Cahaba GBA as one of Medicare’s former regional home health intermediaries and say hello to Highmark Medical Services, Cahaba’s replacement for home health and hospice claims in
01/19/2009
Agencies with a chief information officer or IT staff at the helm of their tech programs get a faster return on investment on new systems, have more functionality in their
01/19/2009
Reduce the amount of work a skilled nursing facility (SNF) has to do to send patients to your agency, and you’ll likely see a boost in referrals.
01/19/2009
Slash Medicare’s current home health rates 5.5% in 2010, omit an inflation update and rebase PPS in 2011 to reflect the major visit changes that CMS planners didn’t provide for
01/19/2009
Home Health Compare could display five patient-satisfaction measures as early as summer 2010, according to CMS. The measures are composed of one to six questions from the voluntary, 36-question Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (CAHPS) survey that CMS expects to launch this summer.
01/12/2009
One of the largest enforcement actions undertaken by the government against a home health pay-for-referrals scheme has resulted in federal indictment of six Detroit-area HHA owners and the former administrator
01/12/2009
Don’t just pass off CMS’s recently released coding guidance to your coding director. This is one coding issue you need to dig into, because the new guidance could disrupt your
01/12/2009
A new government study faults Medicare's private fee-for-service plans for failing to warn enrollees about out-of-pocket costs, and key Democratic lawmakers indicate the findings are another reason to slash the
01/12/2009
Don’t lose eligible patients because your clinicians make the mistake of deciding patients’ homebound status over the phone – and get it wrong.

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