Home Health Line
10/26/2007
Include your nurses in peer-to-peer interviews and you could decrease your turnover rates by more than two percentage points.
10/26/2007
As CMS already has made clear, an episode with 20 or more therapy visits will do more for your agency's bottom line next year.
10/19/2007
CMS remains close-lipped on some key answers the industry wants about how the dragnet-style fraud demo in Houston and Los Angeles metro areas will work.
10/19/2007
Agencies still await clarification on how to handle recertifications that occur during the last five days of this year for episodes that start prior to Jan. 1.
10/19/2007
Agencies nationwide will receive $686 less for early episodes after Jan. 1, when patients receive 10-13 therapy visits, according to new data from Seattle-based information company Outcome Concept Systems. And
10/19/2007
There’s a glimpse of hope that you could avoid four years of payments cuts related to the case-mix creep.
10/12/2007
Your agency’s marketing strategy may not maximize Medicare payment opportunities once the PPS changes take effect Jan. 1, warns consultant Steve Telles of Management Consulting Services in Albuquerque, N.M.
10/08/2007
Don’t get too comfortable if you’re lucky enough to hold a seat among those top 100 agencies nationwide that achieved a balance in quality outcomes, quality improvement and financial performance. Only 28% of the top 100 managed to make it on the list for two consecutive years, according to recent data complied by Seattle-based information company Outcome Concept Systems.
10/08/2007
Tap into a little-known niche service line called a travel health clinic and you could outstrip your projected net profit by more than 40% in one year.
10/08/2007
CMS's national average score for acute care hospitalization has slipped in its first-ever change since Home Health Compare launched in 2003, moving from 28% to 29% in CMS's September update.

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