Home Health Line
06/07/2007
Volunteer your services or give staff the opportunity to volunteer at a medical society, disease association or other group that involves doctors and it could help your Medicare agency increase
06/07/2007
The more therapy visits above the current 10-visit threshold, the bigger the Medicare payment. The more episodes, the bigger the Medicare payment. Both would be true under CMS's pending proposals
06/07/2007
If you want to use that “toy” grouper CMS has given home health agencies as a way to learn what Medicare would pay in 2008 under the pending PPS proposals,
06/07/2007
Here's the wave of the future: Therapists doing more home health admissions. In a Home Health Line survey on CMS's proposed changes to PPS, 64% of the 220 respondents said
06/07/2007
Home health agencies need more powerful financial tools that can tell you not just whether your agency as a whole is profitable but which specific programs are profitable, which referral
05/31/2007
Confusion reigns in NPI land, it seems.
05/31/2007
You could be setting yourself up for a legal nightmare if you alter a patient’s plan of care due to a benefits decision of a managed care plan.
05/31/2007
New Medicare patients were worth $500 to $1,200 each to a southern California home health agency that the government says was the center of more than $9 million in fraudulent
05/31/2007
HHAs got a Memorial Day surprise late Friday, May 25th, when CMS released a temporary grouper and IS coding files that it says will help agencies project the effects of
05/17/2007
The switch to competitively set Medicare HME rates, now under way, could mean big changes for HHAs that offer referring physicians, hospitals and patients “one-stop” home health shopping that includes

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