Home Health Line
03/01/2007
You have about 80 days to get your referring physicians to tell you their new “national provider identifiers,” according to the government's current deadline. If your HHA wants to be
03/01/2007
You could end up facing a major recoupment of Medicare payments or worse if you pay your referring physicians in violation of the Stark II law.
03/01/2007
The Visiting Nurse Associations of America has tapped an Ohio hospital association executive as its new CEO, replacing Carolyn Markey, who is retiring after 10 years as leader of the
03/01/2007
Want to improve the response rate to your patient satisfaction surveys? Then chuck your paper surveys and start doing them on the telephone.
02/22/2007
Keep hospice standing orders short and simple, advises Amy Purple, director of hospice services at Hackley Visiting Nurse Services and Hospice in Muskegon, Mich.
02/22/2007
Stop performing pre-billing audits to avoid the top billing error for home health: Having no processed request for anticipated payment (RAP) by the time the final claim is submitted for
02/22/2007
Annual growth in Medicare payments to freestanding home health agencies and hospices combined slowed to 10.6% in 2006, according the government's latest health spending projections, released Feb. 21. However, that
02/22/2007
Don't base pay-for-performance bonuses on outcomes that home health agencies can't control.
02/22/2007
There’s no end in sight to bullish times for home health, according to the latest health care spending projections by CMS actuaries. As released Feb. 21, the CMS estimates make
02/22/2007
Correction: The average Medicare reimbursement per patient for home health agencies in Washington, D.C. is $3,689. The Jan. 22 issue of HHL (p. 7) incorrectly reported it.

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