Home Health Line
02/21/2008
You better have a solid physician buy-in program in place if you want to make the most of your physician portal system.
02/21/2008
CMS still is working to resolve two claims processing problems related to the 2008 PPS changes.
02/21/2008
Put processes in place to help your staff master the new OASIS episode timing question.
02/21/2008
Despite increasing questions about Medicare’s generous payments to plans and the way plans market themselves and relate to home health agencies and other providers [see story, p. 3], there are
02/15/2008
There’s a good chance your agency’s nurses are struggling to comprehend the layers of home health coding, OASIS and supplies tracking requirements imposed by the PPS 2008 changes. But if
02/15/2008
Start evaluating the skills of your billing staff if you want to ensure continued success in the 2008 PPS.
02/15/2008
Here’s a referral lesson from the school of hard knocks: Even a slick-looking physician portal is unlikely to have an impact on referrals without an accompanying physician practice buy-in strategy.
02/15/2008
Whether performance-based Medicare payments to home health agencies will become a reality remains uncertain. But when it comes to joint replacement patients, HHAs already are feeling the effects of hospital
02/15/2008
NPI news. As of March 1, 2008, claims with both an NPI and a Medicare legacy number will be rejected if the pair isn’t found on the Medicare NPI Crosswalk.
02/15/2008
Seventy-one percent of the 197 home health agency representatives who responded to one question on a recent Home Health Line survey said their clinicians are struggling with diagnosis coding under

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