Home Health Line
04/12/2007
Want to increase your agency's community presence while increasing your referrals? Try offering clinical education sessions for the public featuring local doctors.
04/12/2007
Don't let your physicians miss out on Medicare reimbursement for home health and hospice care plan oversight and for certifying and recertifying home health patients.
04/12/2007
Uncle Sam has taken another close look at home health wrongdoing – and it’s not pretty.
04/12/2007
Fast-growing home and community-based care has moved to a new level with CMS approval of Iowa's request to include the benefit in its basic, statewide Medicaid plan.
04/12/2007
04/12/2007
Designate one of your nurses as a rehab intake nurse who performs all therapy-only patient assessments, and you'll increase the accuracy of your therapy predictions in OASIS M0825 (therapy need).
04/05/2007
Don't pay your medical director until he or she turns in a time sheet listing the hours and duties, urges Robert Wade, a compliance and health care attorney with Baker
04/05/2007
The persistent question of how many 60-day episodes are appropriate for patients with a primary diagnosis of 401.9, essential hypertension, unspecified, has come up again, this time in a Cahaba
04/05/2007
Your HHA's finances could be rattled by substitution of three therapy thresholds for the single therapy threshold now used to decide Medicare's home health payments – one of the major PPS
03/29/2007
Most home health agencies see their Medicare Advantage contracts as something they'd be better off without, considering the typical payment rates and visit authorization hassles. But not Sunrise Health & Hospice.

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