Home Health Line
08/08/2011
Rather than agonize over lost referrals due to physician frustrations with face-to-face rules or hospitals that refer strictly to their own home health branch, some agency marketing and sales teams
08/01/2011

The payment rate increase for low-therapy episodes and decrease for high-therapy episodes in CMS’ proposed 2012 PPS rule mean agencies must begin auditing their utilization numbers now to understand the

08/01/2011

Expect more denials from your Medicare administrative contractors (MACs) for hospice services you provide in nursing homes in the wake of a new report from the HHS Office of Inspector

08/01/2011

Something as simple as hiring a new administrator could draw your agency into the maze of unanswered questions created by the final version of CMS’ new 855A change-of-ownership or control

08/01/2011

The Department of Justice has announced another guilty plea in the $25 million Medicare fraud scheme involving Miami-based ABC Home Health Care. Vicente Guerra-Nistal was a patient recruiter for the

08/01/2011

You can now improve your acute-care hospitalization and other outcome scores using the new risk-adjusted outcomes data posted on Home Health Compare July 21.

08/01/2011
Marketing a home health agency has become harder than ever in the age of face-to-face encounters, aggressive competition for referrals and limited access to physicians.
07/25/2011

A coalition of the home health industry’s major stakeholders is asking Congress to forgo a home health copayment and instead consider payment reforms and other changes that would save Medicare

07/25/2011

One more reason to ensure medical record privacy rules are crystal clear to staff: A Gentiva home health agency employee who took home a dozen folders of patients’ paper medical

07/25/2011

Recent expansions of HHS’ and the Department of Justice’s joint Medicare fraud strike force are bearing fruit, if a recent flurry of indictments and guilty pleas related to fraud schemes

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