Home Health Line
09/20/2007
Color code OASIS questions, making case-mix questions green and questions that determine outcomes pink to strategically position your agency for P4P rewards.
09/20/2007
CMS is proposing additional requirements that might worsen therapists availability where the therapist shortage already is crimping home health admissions.
09/20/2007
by: Marci Heydt
09/20/2007
by: Burt Schorr
Don't hold your breath for final word on the 2008 payment freeze. Predictions of a long wait for agencies to learn whether Congress will pass the freeze voted by the
09/20/2007
by: Marci Heydt
Navigate the 2008 PPS Maze for OASIS and Coding – Sign up today for this one-of-a-kind conference, sponsored by Home Health Line and sister publication Home Care Outcomes on Nov. 29–30
09/20/2007
by: Marci Heydt
Press Ganey releases patient satisfaction data– Press Ganey Associates released a national report titled, “Patient Perspectives on American Health Care” on Tuesday. The report reveals that home health patients are
09/13/2007
Watch out for yes/no questions on your agency's patient satisfaction surveys. “Yes/no questions have their place if you want to identify whether a service is present or absent,” says Carl
09/13/2007
An astonishing explosion of Medicare outlier payments in Miami and surrounding Dade County could be an indirect reason for your agency being shut out of outlier reimbursement in 2008 for
09/13/2007
Worried about the PPS changes that take effect Jan. 1? Step one might be to secure expert coding advice.
09/13/2007
HHAs may be a few steps closer, albeit possibly still a year or two away, from discussing clinical information online with their physicians and patients.

Login

User Name:
Password: