Home Health Line
05/12/2008
The Hospice Wage Index for fiscal year 2009 proposed by CMS will decrease the wage index for hospices in 80.8% of counties nationwide in its first year, according to an
05/12/2008
CMS testing online personal health records (PHR). Medicare beneficiaries in South Carolina are pilot testing a consumer-controlled online tool that would give them access to information about their medical conditions,
05/12/2008
A recently released Abt Associates technical report on the PPS overhaul has given the National Association for Home Care & Hospice reason to believe the final PPS rule wasn’t the “natural
05/12/2008
Record-high gas prices across the country have forced agencies to make operational changes such as raising mileage reimbursement rates to prevent losing clinicians, recent HHL data show.
05/05/2008
Faced with below-need appropriations for Medicare survey and certification, CMS effectively has eliminated initial state surveys in states with the heaviest demand for Medicare certification.
05/05/2008
Develop a process to change the fifth position of the HIPPS code from a letter to a number when no non-routine supplies are provided or risk returned claims and delayed
05/05/2008
According to CMS, a Medicaid change it has proposed could enable “thousands” of frail and disabled Medicaid beneficiaries to obtain home and community-based services (HCBS) that let them avoid nursing
05/05/2008
CMS announced Tuesday that it will not require hospices to report visits by non-hospice staff during inpatient stays when the new billing rules take effect July 1.
05/05/2008
There’s room for improvement in patient satisfaction when it comes to how your agency works with patients to arrange for care, according to results from a recent national patient satisfaction
04/28/2008
Your HHA might be headed for unsettling times if it supplies HME to patients directly or through suppliers it selects for reliability. At least, that’s the way it looks to

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