Home Health Line
06/07/2007
Home health agencies need more powerful financial tools that can tell you not just whether your agency as a whole is profitable but which specific programs are profitable, which referral
05/31/2007
Confusion reigns in NPI land, it seems.
05/31/2007
You could be setting yourself up for a legal nightmare if you alter a patient’s plan of care due to a benefits decision of a managed care plan.
05/31/2007
New Medicare patients were worth $500 to $1,200 each to a southern California home health agency that the government says was the center of more than $9 million in fraudulent
05/31/2007
HHAs got a Memorial Day surprise late Friday, May 25th, when CMS released a temporary grouper and IS coding files that it says will help agencies project the effects of
05/17/2007
The switch to competitively set Medicare HME rates, now under way, could mean big changes for HHAs that offer referring physicians, hospitals and patients “one-stop” home health shopping that includes
05/17/2007
While treating enrollees of private fee-for-service plans is generally hassle-free, home health agencies are finding that getting paid by the plans can be anything but that. And thousands are signing
05/17/2007
Severity-based reimbursement for non-routine medical supplies, as proposed by CMS [HHL 5/7/07], in broad terms would mean bigger reimbursement for patients with the greatest care needs. And the five steps
05/17/2007
The toughest part of updating your IS systems to accommodate the recent PPS proposed changes won’t be the changes themselves – it’ll be the short timeframe in which you have to
05/17/2007
CMS has awarded $547 million in grants to 13 states and the District of Columbia over give years to create Medicaid long-term care programs designed to keep patients in their

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