Home Health Line
06/02/2008
A 14-page, single-space critique of Medicare Advantage program shortcomings by the Democratic staff of the House Energy and Commerce Committee is yet another reason to believe that Medicare's generous payments
06/02/2008
One agency’s decade-old policy lets its nurses make and modify the rules for determining vacation time, which has led to low turnover and simple oversight.
06/02/2008
When your agency adopts point-of-care laptops, give your clinicians their computers a couple of weeks before you roll them out agency-wide and instruct them to play solitaire to familiarize themselves
06/02/2008
CMS released an advanced copy of the long-awaited final hospice Conditions of Participation Tuesday.
05/26/2008
Now that agencies are getting final episode payments under the revised PPS, it’s clear the changes “are increasing the gulf between the haves and have-nots,” in terms of agency’s profitability
05/26/2008
The RHHIs will stop counting Medicare-denied claims as “adjacent” episodes when determining episode timing, effective Oct. 6.
05/26/2008
OASIS question M0110 (episode timing) is one of the biggest financial drivers in the 2008 PPS. But clinicians need to consider the many nuances of the question when determining whether
05/26/2008
Rising gas prices have driven some home health agencies that already lease or buy cars to tweak their programs.
05/26/2008
Create separate business entities for your private duty and Medicare arms, and you will avoid survey stresses and keep both branches running smoothly.
05/26/2008
If there are winners and losers under the 2008 PPS changes, Amedisys could be placed in the former group and Gentiva in the latter – though not by much either way.

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