Home Health Line
09/20/2007
by: Marci Heydt
Navigate the 2008 PPS Maze for OASIS and Coding – Sign up today for this one-of-a-kind conference, sponsored by Home Health Line and sister publication Home Care Outcomes on Nov. 29–30
09/20/2007
by: Marci Heydt
Press Ganey releases patient satisfaction data– Press Ganey Associates released a national report titled, “Patient Perspectives on American Health Care” on Tuesday. The report reveals that home health patients are
09/13/2007
Watch out for yes/no questions on your agency's patient satisfaction surveys. “Yes/no questions have their place if you want to identify whether a service is present or absent,” says Carl
09/13/2007
An astonishing explosion of Medicare outlier payments in Miami and surrounding Dade County could be an indirect reason for your agency being shut out of outlier reimbursement in 2008 for
09/13/2007
Worried about the PPS changes that take effect Jan. 1? Step one might be to secure expert coding advice.
09/13/2007
HHAs may be a few steps closer, albeit possibly still a year or two away, from discussing clinical information online with their physicians and patients.
09/13/2007
Under CMS's upcoming revisions to PPS, HHAs will get an additional $87.93 for LUPA episodes that occur as the only episode or the start-of-care episode. This is a change from
08/30/2007
CMS automatically will increase your payments if your staff marks that a patient was an early episode but the system later determines that its a late episode, according to the
08/30/2007
V codes, infected surgical wounds, gangrene and dysphagia will earn case-mix points for the first time beginning Jan. 1 under the new PPS.
08/30/2007
There could be a new referral source coming to your town, and home health agencies of all types would be wise to roll out the welcome wagon for it, says

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