Home Health Line
06/20/2011

This screening tool from Abt Associates in Atlanta, Ga. creates a record for identifying patient needs, and plans for meeting those needs, in case of a mass casualty event.

06/20/2011

Assess patients with recent mental, emotional or behavioral declines for underlying physical causes that could lead to a hospitalization.

06/13/2011

Agencies’ struggles to explain Medicare’s face-to-face encounters to referring physicians promise to intensify when the face-to-face requirement extends to state Medicaid programs.

06/13/2011

New therapy documentation requirements that took effect April 1 have taken a severe toll on home health agencies’ productivity, new data from HHL’s 2011 productivity survey show.

06/13/2011

Assign a task force now to meet regularly and map out future staff training and other changes affiliated with the coding transition to ICD-10, and you will be on a

06/13/2011

Home health agencies participating in care-transition projects aimed at reducing hospital readmissions may find that their participation doesn’t lead to a significant increase in referrals from the hospitals they work

06/13/2011

CMS issued changes to its billing manual May 27 which clarify the use of two nursing G codes agencies are still confused about.

06/13/2011

Reminder: Cigna Government Services (CGS) will replace Cahaba GBA as the jurisdiction 15 fiscal intermediary on June 13. For a May 18 special bulletin from Cahaba that includes everything you

05/30/2011

Medicare providers hoping for a delay in the Oct. 1, 2013, implementation date of the ICD-10 coding system are in for a disappointment, CMS said during a May 18 national

05/30/2011

Companies that automate hospital discharge planning for a fee – sometimes to the detriment of local HHAs that don’t pay to be included in the automated systems – might be violating Medicare’s

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