Home Health Line
03/13/2008
Contract with nurses at an off-site call center to monitor your telehealth patients, and save your own nurses the time it would take them to make those checks.
03/13/2008
Allow your case managers to work alternative schedules and you may be able to recruit faster, retain longer and even cut back on overtime.
03/13/2008
Forty-three percent of the 218 respondents to HHL’s recent technology survey cited the upfront investment as their biggest reservation for not using telehealth. [See related story, p. 5, for tips
03/07/2008
No one can say the home health industry hasn't fought hard over the years to prevent a Medicare co-pay. Yet, despite the industry’s apparent success on Capitol Hill, home health
03/07/2008
CMS has ended the confusion over how to answer M0826 (therapy need) when doing a resumption-ofcare OASIS. In a nutshell, a second therapy estimate generally isn’t needed for such episodes,
03/07/2008
Stay on the right side of anti-kickback laws when renting space from assisted living facilities by charging fees for extra services.
03/07/2008
Consider creating a matrix of your key performance indicators, including “increase new episodes” and “increase case-mix weight,” as a way to quickly track progress toward your agency’s goals.
03/07/2008
02/28/2008
My agency worked hard last fall to get ready for the PPS changes. But were we really prepared?
02/28/2008
Teach referral sources how to care for patients of various cultures and you could double your referrals.

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