Home Health Line
08/18/2008
Agencies could get more home health-specific support than originally expected from their quality improvement organizations (QIOs) in the next three years.
08/18/2008
When Stratford (Conn.) VNA noticed a spike in patients with co-pay requirements to 15 from zero in one year, its leaders realized they needed a system to collect them or
08/18/2008
All it takes to set up a dummy home medical supply company for defrauding Medicare, such as ones the government has uncovered in Florida, is fabricated contracts with wholesale suppliers,
08/11/2008
HIPAA enforcers finally have taken the gloves off in a case involving a home health agency’s HIPAA privacy breaches that resulted in a large-scale loss of patient data.
08/11/2008
You don’t have to settle for the per-visit rates Medicare Advantage plans offer. The VNA of Philadelphia has used a number of strategies, including taking copies of the federally established
08/11/2008
Home health agencies that rarely encounter non- English speaking patients don’t have to turn one away for lack of staff language capabilities. Instead, they can try a phone-in interpretation service,
08/11/2008
Commenters’ fears that Medicare payment reductions under proposed changes in the hospice wage index would hurt many non-profit hospices didn’t convince CMS to change its plans.
08/04/2008
Florida’s new home health licensing amendments aimed at extinguishing payments or gifts to referring providers may not limit companies that automate hospital discharge planning as once thought. That’s unless the
08/04/2008
With the 2008 PPS demanding correct codes and code-sequencing for up to six patient conditions, smaller agencies like Coe Home Health in the Dallas suburb of Mansfield, Texas, are outsourcing
08/04/2008
Want to recruit bilingual clinicians and boost referrals? Start a community advisory committee in the non-English-speaking communities you serve.

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