Home Health Line
06/28/2007
Consider creating an educational DVD targeting your hospice to families rather than physicians and you could receive an immediate lift in referrals, says Robert Love, assistant administrator at Butte Home
06/28/2007
Below is the regional impact of CMS's proposed PPS update, broken down by two common primary diagnosis groups by benchmark vendor Strategic Healthcare Programs in Santa Barbara, Calif. To see
06/21/2007
The clock is reading one minute to midnight for anyone who wants to comment on CMS's proposed PPS overhaul before the June 26 deadline. Yet with agency-specific projections still generally
06/21/2007
Your pay-for-performance bonuses could depend on your agency's ability to stabilize or improve patients with specific diagnoses, such as acute CVD, CHF or COPD, diabetes, pneumonia, skin infection, skin ulcer
06/21/2007
Rehab-heavy HHAs: look out. Come Jan. 1, when the proposed PPS refinements go into effect, agencies will take a greater financial hit on cases with functional diagnoses such as abnormality
06/21/2007
The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that you don’t have to pay your companion caregivers for overtime.
06/18/2007
HHAs are being inundated with remittance advices and calls from apprehensive Medicare patients due to secondary insurance notification procedures gone haywire.
06/18/2007
Regional impacts of CMS's pending plan to overhaul home health PPS could differ substantially from the broad-brush calculations CMS offered in the proposals it published last month [HHL 5/14/07]. That's
06/18/2007
In addition to driving long distances to their patients, field nurses can be frustrated by spending even more time on the road delivering specimens to local labs for testing. But
06/18/2007
Your billing staff may be the only ones actually looking forward to the proposed PPS revisions taking effect in January.

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