Home Health Line
08/18/2008
All it takes to set up a dummy home medical supply company for defrauding Medicare, such as ones the government has uncovered in Florida, is fabricated contracts with wholesale suppliers,
08/11/2008
HIPAA enforcers finally have taken the gloves off in a case involving a home health agency’s HIPAA privacy breaches that resulted in a large-scale loss of patient data.
08/11/2008
You don’t have to settle for the per-visit rates Medicare Advantage plans offer. The VNA of Philadelphia has used a number of strategies, including taking copies of the federally established
08/11/2008
Home health agencies that rarely encounter non- English speaking patients don’t have to turn one away for lack of staff language capabilities. Instead, they can try a phone-in interpretation service,
08/11/2008
Commenters’ fears that Medicare payment reductions under proposed changes in the hospice wage index would hurt many non-profit hospices didn’t convince CMS to change its plans.
08/04/2008
Florida’s new home health licensing amendments aimed at extinguishing payments or gifts to referring providers may not limit companies that automate hospital discharge planning as once thought. That’s unless the
08/04/2008
With the 2008 PPS demanding correct codes and code-sequencing for up to six patient conditions, smaller agencies like Coe Home Health in the Dallas suburb of Mansfield, Texas, are outsourcing
08/04/2008
Want to recruit bilingual clinicians and boost referrals? Start a community advisory committee in the non-English-speaking communities you serve.
08/04/2008
Home health agencies are adopting “incident reports” to document unobserved falls as part of their falls prevention programs. But these reports, which often contain subjective information about the falls, shouldn’t
08/04/2008
CMS clarifies the term “charge.” To comply with new hospice billing requirements, effective July 1, hospices need to report charges for each visit made by each discipline [HHL 7/21/08]. These

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