Home Health Line
12/10/2012

Additional staff training is the most popular strategy for dealing with CMS’ change to M1024, which takes effect Jan. 1.

 
12/10/2012
Three out of CMS’ four recovery auditors (RACs) have now posted complex review topics for home health agencies, and at least one agency already is starting to feel the auditors’ scrutiny.
 
12/10/2012
The HHS Office of Inspector General (OIG) has advised a hospital-based hospice it won’t challenge the hospice’s plan to coordinate free, non-skilled volunteer services for beneficiaries who may require Medicare hospice services in the near future.
 
12/10/2012
Hospital penalties have created opportunities for agencies to market their specialties to discharge planners as ways to reduce readmissions, but a similar approach can work for physicians too.
 
12/10/2012
You have expertise in a category of care, but how do you know it’ll pay to establish that specialty?
 
12/10/2012
The Department of Veterans’ Affairs has issued a proposed rule that could send more veteran patients your way.
12/10/2012
The following scenario can help you illustrate to coders how coding for resolved conditions will change come Jan. 1. The scenario originally ran in the Aug. 13 issue of HHL, but has been updated by Ann Rambusch, president of Rambusch3 Consulting, Georgetown, Texas, to reflect final rule changes.
 
12/04/2012
The following is an example of marketing collateral for specialty services. Due to the non-technical language, it can be used to market to patients and families as well as providers, says Sue Trumbull, director of business development for Senior Independence Home Health & Hospice in Toledo, Ohio, who provided the material.
12/03/2012
Some provisions of the final 2013 PPS rule are already in effect for episodes that will end in 2013, but therapy provisions of the rule won’t kick in until episodes that start on or after Jan. 1.
 
12/03/2012
The data below show that the percentage of episodes with multiple therapy disciplines varies widely by agency.
 

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