Home Health Line
11/21/2011

Help patients avoid hospitalizations by leaving this simple tool in their home. The tool, used by Bayada Nurses in Moorestown, N.J. and shared during a recent Avalere Health webinar, can help your cardiac patients monitor their symptoms and stay on top of important warning signs.

11/21/2011

Seven percent of the 169 agencies responding to HHL’s final rule survey say they have received a letter from CMS indicating their payments will be reduced by 2% in 2012 due to patient satisfaction reporting mistakes.

11/21/2011
A look at the top ten most commonly used rehospitalization strategies this year shows the agencies with the best rehospitalization outcomes and those with the worst scores employed those strategies
11/14/2011

Two of the Big Four publicly traded home health companies announced that a combined 83 branches nationwide will be closed, sold or consolidated due to poor financial performance – a decision

11/14/2011
CMS has pushed back the completion of its Medicare enrollment revalidation effort to March 2015, giving Medicare administrative contractors (MACs) and providers an additional two years to go through the
11/14/2011
Medicare providers will no longer be required to complete several sections of a new, more extensive 855A enrollment form CMS issued in July, the federal Medicare agency announced Oct. 27.
11/14/2011
Agencies who have failed to get correct face-to-face encounter documentation from a physician despite multiple attempts may have a last-resort option: Report the physician to the Part B carrier or
11/14/2011

Are your clinicians actually spending the amount of time with patients that’s called for in plans of care?

11/14/2011
CMS will report the outcome measure “emergency department use without hospitalization” based on claims data starting in January, as proposed. However, that date is “contingent on the measure’s readiness for
11/14/2011

Home and community-based services (HCBS) as an alternative to more expensive nursing home care appear to be gaining popularity among states squeezed by recession-caused enrollment increases and precipitous declines in

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