Home Health Line
02/08/2007
Deploy your most experienced social worker as your hospice admission coordinator to grow your census.
02/01/2007
Be sure your billers have the new Core Based Statistical Area codes (CBSA) handy, especially if your agency doesn’t bill electronically or lacks updated software.
02/01/2007
Your chances of beating a Medicare claim denial are much better now that CMS has overhauled its appeals process, despite the additions of “qualified independent contractor” (QIC) reviews, a new
02/01/2007
CMS appears to have heard your complaints about the Common Working File being out-of-date, and is doing something about it.
02/01/2007
Implement an assessment tool that identifies all risk factors that contribute to urinary incontinence and you can improve your urinary incontinence scores by 10 percentage points, if one agency's success
02/01/2007
If your home health agency is considering a move into private duty, consider how such a move helped Watertown (Wis.) Memorial Hospital's home health unit step out of red ink
02/01/2007
With all this talk that top performers (those that score in the top 20% on an outcome) could eligible for P4P rewards, you might wonder how stiff you competition is.
01/25/2007
CMS and the Pennsylvania QIO have sounded the alarm and more than 3,000 home health agencies already have signed up for the first-of-its-kind national collaborative to reduce acute care hospitalization.
01/25/2007
Create and enforce a policy that ensures your regular staff don't dump visits on staffers you've hired to perform only on-call duties.
01/25/2007
Home health P4P seems to be on life support – at least for now.

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