Home Health Line
08/02/2007
Train clinicians to always check patients' Medicare cards – not insurance or any other cards – for the correct name to ensure your agency gets its claims paid on time. The beneficiary's
08/02/2007
Episodes where the patient is discharged after having received four visits or less make up the bulk of LUPA (low-utilization payment adjustments) episodes, according to new data from benchmark vendor
08/02/2007
Using V57: Accurate Coding Strategies for Home Health Therapy Audio Conference – Wednesday, August 8, 1-2:30 p.m. ET, http://www.homehealthinteractive.com /conferences/A1316/home.htmMedical Directors: Ensure Success and Avoid Kickback Questions Audio Conference – Tuesday, August
07/26/2007
Amedisys has bought the rights to operate a home health agency in Searcy, Ark. The deal gives Baton Rouge, La.-based Amedisys the ability to provide home health to eight counties
07/26/2007
All reimbursement figures in the table are wage-adjusted, according to benchmark vendor Outcome Concept Systems in Seattle, which provided the data.
07/26/2007
Agencies are getting burned with claims rejected because traditional Medicare patients are switching to Medicare Advantage (MA) plans and their information is not updated in CMS’s Common Working File (CWF).
07/26/2007
With Democratic lawmakers and President Bush now head-to-head on children's health insurance, Medicare home health seems in for a legislative cliffhanger whose outcome may not be known for months -- and
07/26/2007
Agencies that have large numbers of patients requiring fewer than six or between 10 and 13 therapy visits can expect a significant drop in revenue across all diagnoses from 2007
07/26/2007
HHAs stand a strong chance of getting caught in a financial vice January 1st, if prognostications by industry leaders come true regarding the PPS regulatory update. Their reasoning: The entire
07/26/2007
Case Management Strategies to Improve Outcomes, Boost Profits and Prepare for P4P, Part I – Tuesday, July 31, 1-2:30 p.m. ET, http://www.homehealthinteractive.com/conferences/A1320/home.htm How the Proposed PPS Therapy Thresholds Impact Payments and

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