Home Health Line
10/24/2011

A Halloween mystery: Is the Community Living Assistance Services and Supports (CLASS) Act long-term insurance program really dead or can it be resurrected?

10/24/2011

The national average for acute care hospitalization has increased by one percentage point to 27% compared to OASIS-C data reported in July.

10/24/2011

It’s time to begin considering how you will react to CMS’ new hospice cap calculation method, as the first Medicare administrative contractor (MAC) has already given agencies instructions on how

10/24/2011

Help your quality assurance staff make their review of the OASIS and other start-of-care documents more efficient with this tool created by Laura Gramenelles, a senior manager with Simione Consultants in Westborough, Mass.

10/24/2011
Monitor smokers’ diet and counsel them on reducing their tobacco use to prevent hospitalizations for this high-risk patient group.
10/17/2011

The certainty of more outside scrutiny into your therapy practices combined with the expected removal of therapy utilization as a case-mix factor could be setting a trap for agencies unsure

10/17/2011

When LHC Group’s chief compliance officer spoke to attendees of the National Association for Home Care & Hospice’s 30th Annual Meeting & Exposition about billing compliance, he first addressed the elephant in

10/17/2011

The HHS Office of Inspector General’s (OIG) Work Plan for fiscal year 2012 includes five new home health initiatives and one hospice initiative, giving agencies insight into where the OIG’s

10/17/2011

Home health agencies must educate themselves on the newly revised CMS survey protocols now or face a higher risk of deficiencies on their next survey, CMS nurse consultant Patricia Sevast

10/17/2011

CMS released an update to the Medicare Claims Processing Manual Oct. 7 which reiterates that hospices must discharge patients from the Medicare benefit if face-to-face encounters don’t occur timely.

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