Home Health Line
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
11/24/2008
Here are seven steps that home health agencies can take to protect themselves from costly workers’ compensation claims and unwanted premium hikes:Require your employees to file a written incident report
11/24/2008
Conflict-of-interest questions aside, President-elect Barack Obama’s selection of former Sen. Tom Daschle (D-S.D.) to head HHS means the home health industry can count on a knowledgeable and sympathetic friend when
11/24/2008
CMS error rate drops 0.3%. CMS estimates that it saved $400 million by reducing its Medicare feefor- service improper payment rate to 3.6% in fiscal year 2008 from 3.9% in
11/24/2008
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
11/24/2008
Despite efforts to front-load visits and reduce hospitalizations, there’s an increase in the percentage of hospitalizations for congestive heart failure (CHF) patients in the first week of care, new data
11/17/2008
Chalk up another reason to believe that Medicare’s fat payments to Medicare Advantage plans, especially private fee-for-service plans, will be much thinner in the future – and that the record-high percentage
11/17/2008
Coders should have two to three days of intensive training about three to six months before the implementation of ICD-10, conclude the American Health Information Management Association and American Hospital
11/17/2008
Despite the additional data-collection burden, hospices welcome new requirements proposed by CMS as a way to represent accurately what services they provide.
11/17/2008
Agencies should pay attention to overlooked OASIS questions, such as M0220, because their answers could affect acute-care hospitalization scores.

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