Home Health Line
09/29/2008
Make sure your clinicians and coders know about the almost 40 new case-mix codes that could affect your reimbursement, starting Oct. 1.
09/29/2008
CMS surveyors and intermediaries are paying closer attention when agencies write “0” home health visit frequencies on patients’ plans of care, leading to confusion and survey deficiency risks.
09/29/2008
Give your referrals sources a satisfaction survey and you could improve your referral source satisfaction by as much as 10 percentage points.
09/29/2008
The home health industry’s average length of patient stay has grown steadily between 2001 and 2006, but the recent trends in Medicare Advantage and physician habits are leading to a
09/22/2008
An about-to-be-introduced bill to test cash rewards for house-call physicians that trim Medicare outlays for high-cost patients with multiple chronic conditions also could help HHAs the physicians work with when
09/22/2008
CMS plans to survey home health pay-for-performance demo participants before November to find out what quality initiatives they’ve started as a result of the project.
09/22/2008
The former CMS official who represented the federal health agency in negotiations for the hospice wage index CMS now wants to scrap has backed industry opponents of the change.
09/22/2008
This Election Day Aspirus VNA Home Health & Comfort Care Hospice Services will offer flu shots at as many as 13 polling places in northern Wisconsin to set its clinics apart
09/22/2008
Brand-new risk-adjustment models have caused national scores for five of the 12 Home Health Compare outcomes to worsen, according to CMS’s Sept. 17 update.
09/22/2008
CMS: Expect PPS payment reconciliations by the end of the year. CMS plans to release change request (CR6250) in the next few weeks, detailing how the federal agency will reconcile

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