Home Health Line
12/08/2008
Relegating initial certification surveys to the lowest-priority category of Medicare tasks state surveyors are supposed to perform isn’t the only brake the government seems to have clamped on growth in
12/08/2008
The number of proprietary hospices in the past five years has exploded.
12/08/2008
Agencies that base their mileage reimbursement on the Internal Revenue Service’s allowable rate could save money starting Jan. 1. The IRS will decrease its allowable rate to 55 cents per
12/08/2008
Memo to CMS: If you’re trying to collect Medicare overpayments from shady suppliers of home medical equipment who aren’t paying up, try tapping the Medicare payments flowing to home health
12/08/2008
MedPAC discusses 2010 home health payments. The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission met Dec. 4 to discuss the “appropriateness of current costs” with data about beneficiaries access to care, changes in
12/08/2008
Use of GPS-enabled cell phones to manage home health agency field staff is explored in a new, free white paper from DecisionHealth, 12 Ways GPS Reduces Home Health Agency Costs
12/08/2008
Home health agencies that have continued to inappropriately use therapy to boost their Medicare payments may have a rude awakening next year.
11/24/2008
More information is seeping out about home health fraud in the Miami area, and CMS’s decision to suspend Medicare payments to 10 agencies with high levels of suspicious outlier claims
11/24/2008
CMS released its newly refined OASIS-C draft on Nov. 19 giving agencies a closer look at what could be required as soon as 2010.
11/24/2008
Hospital discharge data from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality seem to support the widespread belief among home health managers that faster hospital discharges have meant referrals of sicker

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