Home Health Line
09/03/2012

Reduce your spending on wound care procedures by getting physicians to support a low-frequency formulary that maintains the quality of care at a lower cost.

09/03/2012

Treating patients for varicose veins and “other” codes for surgical complications, skin disorders and lung disease will drain your agency’s profits, according to recent data from OCS HomeCare in Seattle. Those four codes, along with acute pulmonary heart disease, round out the five least profitable diagnoses treated in home health.

09/03/2012

The final rule which delayed ICD-10 until 2014 also finalized a CMS proposal for a standard health plan identifier.

09/03/2012

Use this tracking log from CHRISTUS Home Care in San Antonio to determine how many records coders and auditors complete each month.

09/03/2012

The data below show the average daily number of records completed by coders at CHRISTUS Home Care in San Antonio in November 2011.

08/27/2012

A lawsuit challenging the appropriateness of bonuses paid by a Lincolnwood, Ill.-based agency is raising questions about the future of employee safe-harbor provisions of the anti-kickback statute.

08/27/2012

The National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC) is asking lawmakers to ease the burden of employer insurance mandates in the Affordable Care Act as agencies wonder what additional costs will come their way when the penalties take effect in 2014.

08/27/2012

Just over half of the agencies that responded to HHL’s proposed rule survey provide insurance to full-time employees, with another 37% providing insurance for all staff.

08/27/2012

The fix for a persistent glitch that had been causing underpayments on outlier episodes since 2010 is working – mostly.

08/27/2012

For high productivity in your agency’s office departments, set clear standards to ensure that those who work there perform at their best level and help you do more with less.

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