Home Health Line
05/19/2008
CMS has created new risk-adjustment models for all 41 OBQI outcome measures, a move that could help “level the playing field” for agencies with sicker patients and put the federal
05/19/2008
CMS will issue a correction with its July 7 quarterly software release to resolve a claims-processing glitch that resulted in underpayments for many agencies, Wil Gehne, CMS’s post-acute care specialist,
05/19/2008
Give clinicians tools to electronically transfer patient information back to the office, and you could cut costs and prevent losing clinicians in a time of record-high gas prices.
05/19/2008
Bipartisan opposition on Capitol Hill to CMS’s competitively set Medicare rates for durable medical equipment, prosthetics, orthotics and supplies seems to be growing. The result could be legislation to prevent
05/19/2008
Next time one of your clinicians voluntarily doubles up her workload to cover for a sick colleague, give her a reward, such as a “Sandollar,” that she can exchange for
05/19/2008
There were 765 instances in 2007 of HHAs put in jeopardy of losing their Medicare certification because a state surveyor dinged them on one of the 12 leading reasons for
05/12/2008
The risk is about to rise dramatically for Florida agencies that pay for referrals and pursue other fraudulent strategies that have made home health in the Sunshine State notorious.
05/12/2008
Infrequent surveys and the lack of CMS oversight has allowed some hospices to violate regulations.
05/12/2008
The Hospice Wage Index for fiscal year 2009 proposed by CMS will decrease the wage index for hospices in 80.8% of counties nationwide in its first year, according to an
05/12/2008
CMS testing online personal health records (PHR). Medicare beneficiaries in South Carolina are pilot testing a consumer-controlled online tool that would give them access to information about their medical conditions,

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