Home Health Line
07/26/2007
With Democratic lawmakers and President Bush now head-to-head on children's health insurance, Medicare home health seems in for a legislative cliffhanger whose outcome may not be known for months -- and
07/26/2007
Agencies that have large numbers of patients requiring fewer than six or between 10 and 13 therapy visits can expect a significant drop in revenue across all diagnoses from 2007
07/26/2007
HHAs stand a strong chance of getting caught in a financial vice January 1st, if prognostications by industry leaders come true regarding the PPS regulatory update. Their reasoning: The entire
07/26/2007
Case Management Strategies to Improve Outcomes, Boost Profits and Prepare for P4P, Part I – Tuesday, July 31, 1-2:30 p.m. ET, http://www.homehealthinteractive.com/conferences/A1320/home.htm How the Proposed PPS Therapy Thresholds Impact Payments and
07/19/2007
A dragnet-style “demonstration” against home health fraud affecting more than 800 HHAs in Los Angeles and Houston announced July 17 could become a new government weapon against home health fraud
07/19/2007
About half of home health agencies use point of care devices or similar clinical technology to help with their billing processes, but it doesn't seem to be helping them avoid
07/19/2007
Baptist Home Health Care in Jacksonville, Fla. uses this log as part of its productivity tracking system to reward staff for work above and beyond minimum productivity levels [HHL 7/16/07].
07/19/2007
The word from home health coding experts: Your agency hasn’t learned much if it only knows that application of CMS’s proposed PPS changes to OASIS assessments of its current patients
07/12/2007
Establish clear productivity goals for your staff and they'll probably thank you. But set up a system that rewards them for any work over and above minimum productivity levels, and
07/12/2007
There’s some good news, and some even better news for those of you looking for more collaborative referral sources.

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