Home Health Line
03/08/2007
The former co-owner of a Louisiana home health agency who currently is finishing a 27-month federal prison sentence for Medicare fraud owes the government less money than his sentence called
03/08/2007
The U.S. Supreme Court will hear the companionship exemption overtime case on April 16, according to the court’s docket.
03/01/2007
Be careful where you get your lists for bulk-mail marketing efforts.
03/01/2007
A proposal to buy out the public shareholders of National Home Health Care and take the $102 million-a-year company private has made it the target of class-action suit allegations that
03/01/2007
You have about 80 days to get your referring physicians to tell you their new “national provider identifiers,” according to the government's current deadline. If your HHA wants to be
03/01/2007
You could end up facing a major recoupment of Medicare payments or worse if you pay your referring physicians in violation of the Stark II law.
03/01/2007
The Visiting Nurse Associations of America has tapped an Ohio hospital association executive as its new CEO, replacing Carolyn Markey, who is retiring after 10 years as leader of the
03/01/2007
Want to improve the response rate to your patient satisfaction surveys? Then chuck your paper surveys and start doing them on the telephone.
02/22/2007
Keep hospice standing orders short and simple, advises Amy Purple, director of hospice services at Hackley Visiting Nurse Services and Hospice in Muskegon, Mich.
02/22/2007
Stop performing pre-billing audits to avoid the top billing error for home health: Having no processed request for anticipated payment (RAP) by the time the final claim is submitted for

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