Home Health Line
08/04/2008
The first analysis of visits per HHRG under the 2008 PPS reveals an average of 11.6 visits per episode for the most common score – an early episode, low therapy C3F2S1.
07/28/2008
Oakwood Home Care reduced its accounts receivable older than 90 days to 3% from 30% by setting standards for collecting the oldest outstanding claims and holding billing staff accountable.
07/28/2008
CMS should rethink its plan to base Medicare's hospice payments on the hospital wage index, organizations that represent hospices have urged in comments on CMS’s proposals published May 1.
07/28/2008
CMS has released new OASIS guidance related to how clinicians should answer M0488 for a surgical wound with a scab -- and it could mean the difference of more than $300
07/28/2008
Get ready for another layer of Medicare payment reviews, this time by recovery audit contractors (RACs), whose auditors’ salaries, in effect, will depend on the amount of provider overpayments they
07/28/2008
CMS released final revised risk adjustment models for all OBQI outcome measures, a move that could level the playing field for agencies with sicker patients and put the federal agency
07/28/2008
None of the national averages changed in the most recent Home Health Compare update, according to the data released on July 17. Note: The percentage of patients who need unplanned
07/21/2008
The new Florida law that stiffens home health licensing with strict anti-kickback provisions also could force a change in Sunshine State operations of companies that automate hospital discharge planning for
07/21/2008
With many Republicans breaking ranks to help override President Bush’s veto of the pending Medicare bill, the House and Senate approved Medicare legislation July 15 that will postpone competitively set
07/21/2008
Mercy Home Care in Cedar Rapids, Iowa had its emergency preparedness plan severely tested last month when Midwest floods caused the agency’s parent hospital to evacuate all of its 176

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