Home Health Line
12/07/2007
Host a live event, such as the lighting of a memorial tree decked with personal stars remembering hospice patients, to make your online fundraising efforts shine.
12/07/2007
Add “pet therapy” to your hospice program and you could see a jump in referrals as well as savings in visit costs.
12/07/2007
Clarification– In the Nov. 26th issue of HHL Henry Goldberg, senior associate for Health Policy & Clinical Research for Abt Associates in Cambridge, Mass, said that CMS and Abt Associates decided
12/07/2007
Create an Excel file that automatically calculates whether the episode is an early or late episode to help secure accurate payments under 2008 PPS.
12/03/2007
HHAs aren’t perfect – but when it comes to Medicare payment errors, they’re relatively close with just 1.4% of their reimbursement counted as erroneous, according to CMS’ latest payment error findings.
12/03/2007
HHAs soon will be able to benchmark their supplies costs and laser-in on unnecessary spending, thanks to a year-long supplies benchmarking project sponsored by Strategic HealthCare Programs (SHP) of Santa
12/03/2007
The paperwork hospices must provide CMS for the care they provide is set to become significantly more complicated.
12/03/2007
Consider a drop-ship supply program – which clinicians use to order supplies and have them delivered to patients’ homes – to reduce clinician travel times and save supply costs.
12/03/2007
The analysis below, provided by benchmark vendor Strategic Healthcare Systems, shows how the number of episodes and the number of therapy visits would affect average Medicare revenue changes in each
11/26/2007
Home health executives who would like to slow – or even reverse – growth in the percentage of their patients enrolled in Medicare Advantage can point to new Medicare Payment Commission concerns

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