Home Health Line
02/22/2007
The second of two Michigan brothers accused by the government of pre-PPS Medicare fraud is facing up to 30 months of prison time. Iftakhar Kahn has pleaded guilty to including
02/15/2007
Your billing probably isn't as clean as you think – and it's costing your agency.
02/15/2007
Better watch your market. A new type of entrepreneur is showing up in home health -- “one much more sales-oriented and more driven to achieve efficiency” than is typical of HHAs
02/15/2007
Help your referrals by giving physicians HHL's 2007 checklists of Medicare rates for home health CPO, certification and recertification (H662HHL) and hospice CPO (H663HHL), both adjusted by locality. Checklists include
02/15/2007
How would you like to save up to $5,500 apiece on wound patients? Centura Health at Home in Denver is doing it by convincing doctors who prescribe expensive wound care
02/08/2007
Your HHA avoided a rate freeze this year but you may not be that lucky next year.
02/08/2007
Hold regular meetings for your home health aides to swap strategies for handling difficult patients and you'll see retention soar.
02/08/2007
Give staff an Internet link to agency records and files so they can work from home if necessary.
02/08/2007
Starting in 1988, Medicare certifications of new for-profit HHAs began to consistently outnumber certifications of nonprofit HHAs, according to a year-by-year tally compiled by Seattle-based benchmark vendor Outcome Concept Systems.
02/08/2007
This chart shows the number of patients served by the hospice benefit per the number of Medicare eligibles in each state, expressed as a percentage, as compiled by Richard Chesney

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