Home Health Line
02/08/2007
Hold regular meetings for your home health aides to swap strategies for handling difficult patients and you'll see retention soar.
02/08/2007
Give staff an Internet link to agency records and files so they can work from home if necessary.
02/08/2007
Starting in 1988, Medicare certifications of new for-profit HHAs began to consistently outnumber certifications of nonprofit HHAs, according to a year-by-year tally compiled by Seattle-based benchmark vendor Outcome Concept Systems.
02/08/2007
This chart shows the number of patients served by the hospice benefit per the number of Medicare eligibles in each state, expressed as a percentage, as compiled by Richard Chesney
02/08/2007
Deploy your most experienced social worker as your hospice admission coordinator to grow your census.
02/01/2007
Be sure your billers have the new Core Based Statistical Area codes (CBSA) handy, especially if your agency doesn’t bill electronically or lacks updated software.
02/01/2007
Your chances of beating a Medicare claim denial are much better now that CMS has overhauled its appeals process, despite the additions of “qualified independent contractor” (QIC) reviews, a new
02/01/2007
CMS appears to have heard your complaints about the Common Working File being out-of-date, and is doing something about it.
02/01/2007
Implement an assessment tool that identifies all risk factors that contribute to urinary incontinence and you can improve your urinary incontinence scores by 10 percentage points, if one agency's success
02/01/2007
If your home health agency is considering a move into private duty, consider how such a move helped Watertown (Wis.) Memorial Hospital's home health unit step out of red ink

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