Home Health Line
12/22/2008
Agencies need more work refining their non-routine supply-tracking processes, new data show.
12/22/2008
While agencies will have to document whether they completed a falls assessment or if they initiated interventions for preventing falls, it’s unlikely that these proposed new OASIS-C process measures will
12/22/2008
Home health recruiters have ventured beyond traditional online recruiting tools to use sites, such as Craigslist.com and specialty job boards, to find talented job candidates.
12/22/2008
Home Health Compare update - Improvement in urinary incontinence dropped one percentage point to 48% in the Dec. 18 update of Home Health Compare. The remaining outcomes remained unchanged from the
12/15/2008
The next round of Medicare Payment Advisory Commission recommendations to Congress could include some unpleasant medicine for the industry – a Medicare base-rate reduction beyond the 2.75 percentage-point reductions in 2008-2010
12/15/2008
CMS has decided to bring down the curtain on efforts to recoup M0175-related overpayments, which actually have been stalled for nearly two years by successful agency appeals.
12/15/2008
Your list of Home Health Compare measures could get longer, as soon as December 2010.
12/15/2008
Create a Google-powered program to electronically transmit and catalogue digital wound photos, and you could save your clinicians time while improving patient outcomes.
12/15/2008
Correction: Home Health Licensing Specialists, which organized 34 turn-key HHAs in Texas, at one point was paying up to 50 clinicians and aides to care for the patients it needed
12/15/2008
Data show an overwhelming number of new for-profit agencies, and experts fear this growth could trigger steps to limit approval of more agencies.

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