Home Health Line
07/05/2007

Rio Grande Home Health, El Paso, Texas, may have hit a home run with its new marketing tool – a referral source newsletter.

07/05/2007
You could pay about $1,600 the next time state surveyors have to revisit your agency to confirm that a certification, recertification or complaint deficiency has been corrected. Even if the
07/05/2007
Even if your agency has the most up-to-date billing software, that doesn't mean your billers are actually using it.
07/05/2007
Medicare-allowed reimbursement for home health certification and recertification billed by physician Tom Cornwell’s housecalls practice in the fiscal year ended June 30, 2007, totaled approximately $42,000, in addition to $26,000
06/28/2007
Many physicians constantly use their electronic devices such as cell phones, PDAs or other gadgets, which is a trait that home health agencies can take advantage of to grow referrals,
06/28/2007
Hidden pitfalls in your everyday practices — from software glitches to sloppy cost reports — could put you at risk for a “whistleblower” lawsuit that could cost you tens or even hundreds
06/28/2007
Consider creating an educational DVD targeting your hospice to families rather than physicians and you could receive an immediate lift in referrals, says Robert Love, assistant administrator at Butte Home
06/28/2007
Below is the regional impact of CMS's proposed PPS update, broken down by two common primary diagnosis groups by benchmark vendor Strategic Healthcare Programs in Santa Barbara, Calif. To see
06/21/2007
The clock is reading one minute to midnight for anyone who wants to comment on CMS's proposed PPS overhaul before the June 26 deadline. Yet with agency-specific projections still generally
06/21/2007
Your pay-for-performance bonuses could depend on your agency's ability to stabilize or improve patients with specific diagnoses, such as acute CVD, CHF or COPD, diabetes, pneumonia, skin infection, skin ulcer

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