Home Health Line
01/04/2007
Don’t let insufficient clinical documentation cost you up to $1,100 per Parkinson’s patient, particularly when it comes to therapy and recertification.
01/04/2007
Your agency will continue to receive full payments for your Part B outpatient therapy patients that qualify for the payment cap exceptions, thanks to Congressional action.
01/04/2007
Don't expect CMS in 2007 to issue a proposal requiring hospitals to disclose how many Medicare beneficiaries they referred to their own agencies.
01/04/2007
The projected dates are from CMS's Semi Annual Regulatory Agenda published in the Federal Register.
01/04/2007
After more than 11 years as administrator of an Illinois home health agency, Kay Olsen decided it was time to own her own agency, which she now operates with two
01/04/2007
by: Marci Heydt
Place stickers with your agency's phone number on the charts of home health patients in assisted living facilities. This one step helped Columbus, Ohio-based Select Home Care improve its acute
04/27/2006
Free your nurses to deliver more visits by substituting short comprehensive evaluations for OASIS assessments of non-Medicare/Medicaid patients.
04/27/2006
Home health agencies, DME/HME suppliers and other providers that bill Medicare should be ready to answer more precise government questions than before about the backgrounds of their owners and managers
04/27/2006
When the so-called “Too Much Committee” reported that on-call nurses were overwhelmed by their workload, VNA Community Healthcare arranged for an administrative employee to help field calls on the weekend.
04/27/2006
Losses. That’s what you’ll likely see in dealings with managed care providers, HHAs say.

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