Home Health Line
01/30/2012

The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has concluded that home health pay for performance (P4P) deserves a double thumbs down, based on the first year of the two-year demonstration.

01/30/2012

Examine and improve the accuracy of your agency’s therapy predictions to avoid unpredictable cash flow and defuse conflicts between clinical and administrative staff.

01/30/2012

Prescription drug theft by clinicians and aides can be difficult to pinpoint, but the potential for patient harm and legal liability means your agency needs to have screening and damage control measures in place.

01/30/2012

Imagine a world in which you can reliably predict a patient’s chances of being rehospitalized almost instantly and will know exactly what to do to prevent that rehospitalization from happening.

01/30/2012

When you use a new OASIS to reset the start-of-care date after a late encounter, you won’t have to swallow the cost of all care provided to date, CMS has clarified.

01/23/2012

Pressure from government auditors may lead to the revival of a three-state demonstration that could significantly reduce the financial burden on agencies of caring for dually eligible patients.

01/23/2012

Your agency may be able to offset the recent 2.31% CMS payment cuts by carefully analyzing the money you spend on outside vendors, such as banks and medical suppliers, and proactively keeping those costs as manageable as possible.

01/23/2012

It’s imperative to stay organized in your bookkeeping and regularly obtain competitive quotes to ensure that you are getting the best deal on your insurance.

01/23/2012

Keeping your hospice claims legal these days depends as much on appropriate discharges as on appropriate admissions.

01/23/2012

One more sign of the government’s focus on dubious hospice claims is the Justice Department’s decision to intervene in a whistleblower suit that accuses AseraCare Hospice of filing false Medicare claims.

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