Home Health Line
02/01/2007
With all this talk that top performers (those that score in the top 20% on an outcome) could eligible for P4P rewards, you might wonder how stiff you competition is.
01/25/2007
CMS and the Pennsylvania QIO have sounded the alarm and more than 3,000 home health agencies already have signed up for the first-of-its-kind national collaborative to reduce acute care hospitalization.
01/25/2007
Create and enforce a policy that ensures your regular staff don't dump visits on staffers you've hired to perform only on-call duties.
01/25/2007
Home health P4P seems to be on life support – at least for now.
01/25/2007
The U.S. Supreme Court will decide once and for all whether private duty companies must pay overtime to staff who provide companionship services.
01/25/2007
01/25/2007
Each time your clinicians leave M0245 (payment diagnosis) on the OASIS question blank, it could be costing your agency $350.
01/18/2007
Let your staff self-schedule their on-call hours as much as possible to help reduce turnover.
01/18/2007
Too many hospitals still are steering discharged patients to their own or to favored home health agencies, contrary to what Congress intended when it added an anti-steering provision to Medicare
01/18/2007

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