Home Health Line
05/03/2007
Your future M0175 (inpatient facility) worries may be over if CMS finalizes as-is its proposed rule modifying home health PPS.
05/03/2007
Many agencies have been profiting from therapy strategies that exploit the current 10-visit threshold for higher episode payments.
05/03/2007
05/03/2007
The old two-step HHRG calculation will be no more if the proposed PPS changes published last Friday are adopted.
05/03/2007
The list of diagnoses that directly influence overall scores would increase significantly under CMS’ proposed revamp of home health PPS. The new case-mix boosters include such labor-intensive diagnoses as cancer
05/03/2007
Agencies can use this table to see, plugging in their own average case weight and average wage index, what effect the PPS overhaul as proposed will have on their revenues.
04/26/2007
Get ready for a hectic Thanksgiving and a hectic Christmas too. Home health agencies could have both.
04/26/2007
University student volunteers can save your agency thousands of dollars a month by taking on such tasks as answering phones and companion services.
04/26/2007
CMS' P4P demonstration project won't include Medicare managed care patients.
04/26/2007
Therapists may be even more critical to your outcomes than you thought. The latest data from Strategic Healthcare Programs in Santa Barbara, Calif., indicates that when therapists conduct start-of-care or

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