Home Health Line
04/09/2012

Conduct a cost-benefit analysis to find out whether a clearinghouse is the right choice to help your agency avoid claims processing issues and realize efficiencies in your billing department.

04/09/2012

CMS has now posted preview reports for your first set of publicly reported patient satisfaction scores, the federal Medicare agency announced April 2.

04/09/2012

Recent government scrutiny of the Big Four home health companies has put the breaks on their expansion plans, freeing up the market for mergers and acquisitions by other buyers at lower prices.

04/09/2012

The two owners of Miami-based Serendipity Home Health have pleaded guilty to a $20 million fraud scheme.

04/09/2012
03/29/2012

Congress didn’t specify what physicians need to do to “document” face-to-face encounters with patients referred for home health. Nevertheless, CMS plans to stick with its controversial F2F reporting requirements, which must be satisfied for agencies to be paid by Medicare.

03/29/2012

Agencies now know the seven components recommended for the implementation of home health pay for performance thanks to a recent HHS report submitted to Congress. 

03/29/2012

Analyze what referral sources’ needs your local competitors aren’t meeting to grow referrals.

03/29/2012

Help your clinicians identify infections of the multi-drug resistant bacteria Clostridium difficile (C. difficile), which can seriously endanger the lives of home health patients exposed to them.

03/29/2012

If you think the only use of telephony in home care today is to monitor when aides show up at a client’s residence for work and when they leave, better think again.

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