Home Health Line
04/14/2008
Just three months after CMS shifted the financial rewards for agencies predicting 10 or more therapy visits, the industry has responded with a decrease in the number of cases that
04/07/2008
The PPS changes, on average, haven’t produced the claims payments anticipated by the 1,400 or so home health agencies in the Strategic Healthcare Programs database – at least not in the
04/07/2008
If the government succeeds in its current efforts to learn which setting is most appropriate for Medicare patients after an acute-care hospital stay, home health could be a winner, thanks
04/07/2008
HHAs soon could see a change in their scores for 11 OBQI outcomes, because CMS plans to risk adjust them.
04/07/2008
Your nurses can answer several functional OASIS questions by having patients perform one task, such as getting to the bathroom and on and off the toilet.
04/07/2008
The March 2008 Home Health Compare update shows progress in ambulation/locomotion and bathing scores. Each saw a one percentage-point increase from December 2007 scores, according to Home Health Compare. Scores
03/31/2008
Federally mandated background checks based partly on state and national fingerprint searches could be in the future for home health agencies when hiring clinicians and aides.
03/31/2008
As home health agencies struggle over the perennial question of how to pay their nurses – hourly, salary or per-visit – some have found that a mix of these methods may be
03/31/2008
CMS awards RHHI contract to NGS. The National Government Services (NGS) will administer claims for Connecticut and New York starting no later than November 2008, according to a March 18
03/31/2008
With the increased importance of therapy in the 2008 PPS, shortages of therapists have led at least one agency to pay a PT sign-on bonus of $10,000.

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