Home Health Line
04/25/2011

Contract employees are likely the biggest reason that a hospice condition of participation related to background checks made its debut on the list of top 10 CMS survey deficiencies in

04/18/2011

The Community Living Assistance Services and Supports (CLASS) Act included in last year’s health care reform legislation as a way to guarantee home care and community care for some 600,000

04/18/2011

Physician orders for home health services or discharge summaries from acute or post-acute care facilities are acceptable for face-to-face visit documentation if they include certain information.

04/18/2011

When pharmaceutical sales representatives apply for jobs at your agency, ask questions to determine how they’ll handle industry differences.

04/18/2011

Is the campaign to halt or revise use of competitive bidding to set Medicare’s home medical equipment rates gaining ground?

04/11/2011

Home health agencies already are feeling the effects of the face-to-face physician encounter requirement just days after CMS announced it would not grant another delay in enforcement.

04/11/2011

Home health agencies will have to work with physicians and hospitals in charge of each accountable care organization (ACO) to determine how – or whether – they will receive a slice of

04/11/2011

The long-awaited proposed rule on accountable care organizations (ACOs) appears to relax several compliance requirements to enable ACOs to operate, but the rule also creates new compliance obligations for participating

04/11/2011

The upcoming Easter and Passover holiday season can be the perfect time for home care agencies to air radio ads targeted at baby boomers who may be more in tune

04/11/2011

CMS delays enforcement of lab requisition signature requirement indefinitely. The federal Medicare agency announced March 31 that it is concerned physicians and labs don’t understand the requirement. For that reason,

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