Home Health Line
06/21/2007
Rehab-heavy HHAs: look out. Come Jan. 1, when the proposed PPS refinements go into effect, agencies will take a greater financial hit on cases with functional diagnoses such as abnormality
06/21/2007
The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that you don’t have to pay your companion caregivers for overtime.
06/18/2007
HHAs are being inundated with remittance advices and calls from apprehensive Medicare patients due to secondary insurance notification procedures gone haywire.
06/18/2007
Regional impacts of CMS's pending plan to overhaul home health PPS could differ substantially from the broad-brush calculations CMS offered in the proposals it published last month [HHL 5/14/07]. That's
06/18/2007
In addition to driving long distances to their patients, field nurses can be frustrated by spending even more time on the road delivering specimens to local labs for testing. But
06/18/2007
Your billing staff may be the only ones actually looking forward to the proposed PPS revisions taking effect in January.
06/07/2007
Volunteer your services or give staff the opportunity to volunteer at a medical society, disease association or other group that involves doctors and it could help your Medicare agency increase
06/07/2007
The more therapy visits above the current 10-visit threshold, the bigger the Medicare payment. The more episodes, the bigger the Medicare payment. Both would be true under CMS's pending proposals
06/07/2007
If you want to use that “toy” grouper CMS has given home health agencies as a way to learn what Medicare would pay in 2008 under the pending PPS proposals,
06/07/2007
Here's the wave of the future: Therapists doing more home health admissions. In a Home Health Line survey on CMS's proposed changes to PPS, 64% of the 220 respondents said

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