Home Health Line
09/26/2011

By Nov. 14, your agency will have to post an 11-by-14- inch notice of employee rights under federal labor law, according to a new National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) rule.

09/26/2011
Watch out if you rely on therapy assistants to perform a large portion of your therapy visits – CMS hinted in the PPS proposed rule that it might reduce reimbursements for
09/16/2011
The first week of September saw a near-unprecedented Justice Department crackdown on Medicare fraud – 91 individuals have been charged so far this month, approximately one third of which were alleged
09/16/2011

Phase in the proposed 5.06% case-mix creep adjustment over several years or face the consequences – a “large number” of home health agencies going out of business, the National Association for

09/16/2011

Agency comments on the proposed Medicaid face-to-face rule’s extra burden for dual eligibles will be “more than considered” in the final rule, said two CMS home health directors at the

09/16/2011

Certain dementia patients will yield reduced Medicare reimbursements starting Oct. 1, as the fiscal 2012 ICD-9 diagnosis code for non-specified dementia has been stripped of case-mix value.

09/16/2011

The bipartisan Congressional deficit reduction committee could consider a 10% home health copay and a Medicare reimbursement freeze – at least according to a list of possible Medicare cuts prepared by

09/16/2011

CMS has published the risk-adjustment formula it used to calculate scores for the first batch of publicly reported OASIS-C-based outcomes data.

09/16/2011

CMS issued a new statement of work for its Recovery Audit Contractors (RACs) Sept. 12 that could put home health on the auditors’ radar. The statement of work emphasizes that

09/05/2011

Stepped-up OIG scrutiny and audits of hospice services mean hospices must be sure documentation justifies the medical necessity of services.

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