Home Health Line
04/27/2006
Free your nurses to deliver more visits by substituting short comprehensive evaluations for OASIS assessments of non-Medicare/Medicaid patients.
04/27/2006
Home health agencies, DME/HME suppliers and other providers that bill Medicare should be ready to answer more precise government questions than before about the backgrounds of their owners and managers
04/27/2006
When the so-called “Too Much Committee” reported that on-call nurses were overwhelmed by their workload, VNA Community Healthcare arranged for an administrative employee to help field calls on the weekend.
04/27/2006
Losses. That’s what you’ll likely see in dealings with managed care providers, HHAs say.
04/27/2006
If you thought the burden of providing advance beneficiary notices to home health patients couldn't get more complicated, better think again.
04/27/2006
04/27/2006
Use of V57.1 (other physical therapy) is on the decline.
04/07/2000
HCFA gave physicians their PPS marching orders in its latest transmittal (copied below as an exclusive subscriber benefit). The transmittal, to be posted by the regional home health intermediaries on
04/07/2000
by: Burt Schorr
HCFA seems ready to abandon its proposal that physicians certify the accuracy of the home health resource groups (HHRGs) to which HHAs assign patients under the prospective payment system.
04/07/2000
by: Burt Schorr
Your cash-flow picture won't be as gloomy in the early months of PPS as many in the industry had feared, according to HCFA officials involved in PPS development.

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