Home Health Line
10/03/2011

Agencies seeking to reduce costly rehospitalizations may want to consider purchasing or leasing telehealth devices. If employed effectively, telehealth can cut costs even though the devices are not covered by

10/03/2011

Monitor your patients’ terminal status carefully or you may have to swallow the costs of care while you plan the discharge of a hospice patient who’s become ineligible for that

10/03/2011

Most home health agencies have been reporting Home Health Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (HH-CAHPS) data for about a year and some improvements are visible, but the same

10/03/2011

Agencies have begun to receive letters from their Medicare administrative contractors, notifying them that they haven’t met the requirement to participate in the Home Health Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers

10/03/2011

CMS has announced the 2012 minimum amounts in contention for administrative law judge (ALJ) hearings and judicial review. The amounts will be $130 for the ALJ level and $1,350 for

10/03/2011
The financial impact of the face-to-face encounter requirement is hitting home for agencies nationwide as they see the number of days between the end of an episode and the filing
09/26/2011

Agencies are receiving a new round of apparently erroneous denials related to documentation of face-to-face encounters, HHL has learned.

09/26/2011

CMS issued a new statement of work for its Recovery Audit Contractors (RACs) Sept. 12 that could make home health claims a focus for the first time.

09/26/2011

President Obama has proposed a $100 home health copay as part of the deficit-reduction and jobs bill he sent to Capitol Hill for consideration by the bipartisan “super committee” in

09/26/2011

Deciding whether to outsource coding under ICD-10 or handle the new coding system’s increased complexity in house will be essential to a seamless transition in two years.

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