Home Health Line
02/04/2008
Promotional videos about your services can become big business boosters, enterprising HHA execs are finding.
02/04/2008
Witnesses at a Jan. 30 Senate Finance Committee hearing offered more reasons for Congress to trim Medicare’s generous payments to its private fee-for-service plans and reduce their rapid growth. [HHL
02/04/2008
Congress added 0.5% to the 2007 dollar conversion factor for Medicare physician rates for the six months through June 30, 2008. But CMS continues to reduce the national average allowables
02/04/2008
Home health licensing changes now pending in the Florida legislature could put an end to South Florida's notorious reputation as a hotbed for Medicare and Medicaid fraud.
02/04/2008
Consider using physical therapists for certain wound-care patients and you could reap the rewards of saving an expensive nursing visit.
01/28/2008
At week four of home health’s PPS revisions some cash-starved agencies are starting to get the Medicare payments they have been waiting for – but not every HHA.
01/28/2008
A home health agency's Medicare provider number can be a big part of the agency's value to a prospective purchaser. But that value is highly perishable for an agency that
01/28/2008
This DME recommendation form helped St. Mary Medical Center in Walla Walla, Wash., boost its average number of visits per 8-hour shift to 4.75 from 4.25 over the past year.
01/28/2008
Home health’s focus on predicting the number of therapy visits for PPS and on P4P outcomes has converged to shine new favorable light on telephony. That’s the software typically deployed
01/28/2008
It may be getting harder to receive P4P rewards. For example, to earn a spot in the top 20% of agencies – and thus increasing your odds for P4P rewards – you

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