Home Health Line
04/28/2008
Home health agencies have discovered a way to boost referrals by offering flu shots to homebound Medicare beneficiaries who are not on service with them.
04/28/2008
Set standards for handling incoming calls, train office staff in those standards and monitor their compliance, and you could increase patient satisfaction and maybe referrals too.
04/28/2008
Program your telehealth monitors to ask patients whether their medications have changed, and your agency could prevent hospitalizations and avoid survey deficiencies.
04/21/2008
Want to know which Medicare Advantage plans will expect your agency to collect a 15% co-pay from patients it has admitted? Don't put that question to CMS because it has
04/21/2008
So far the three-year test of home health patients receiving care at medical adult day care centers (MADC) has turned up unanticipated “challenges” and lower-than-anticipated enrollment, according to a CMS
04/21/2008
Your list of case-mix diagnoses could expand, starting Oct. 1, given CMS’s list of more than 300 new codes.
04/21/2008
To receive payments after July 1 hospices need to report the number and cost of visits, but this information isn’t easy to get when the hospital or skilled nursing facility
04/21/2008
There’s no guarantee that agencies looking to buy telehealth will save on visit costs, but the majority of HHAs using this technology have reduced their acute-care hospitalization scores, a new
04/14/2008
When it comes to the nearly 11 percentage-point reduction in home health payments over four years that CMS wrote into the PPS revisions to offset case-mix “creep,” the official word
04/14/2008
While many home health agencies are switching from paper to laptops, two West Coast agencies have taken a step in the opposite direction. They’ve traded their laptops for a scanning

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