Home Health Line
12/06/2010

New Medicaid programs authorized by the health care reform law could put home health agencies in charge of coordinating patients’ care – and pay them for it.

12/06/2010

A hospice could be at risk for CMS survey deficiencies if staff at a skilled nursing facility where a hospice patient lives do not perform their own assessments.

12/06/2010

Your agency now has a new self-disclosure tool to avoid Medicare recoupments when your agency forgets to renew a contract with a referring physician with whom your agency has a

12/06/2010

Physicians will continue to dodge, until Jan. 1, the 23% physician cut called for under the existing practitioner payment formula (HHL 7/5/10). That’s thanks to legislation that unanimously passed the

11/22/2010

Home health agencies have little or no chance of receiving standard episode payments for patients enrolled in private fee-for-service plans as of Jan. 1.

11/22/2010

Agencies will need one to two hours to obtain the necessary physician documentation of face-to-face encounters, 40% of 239 agencies responding to a recent HHL survey estimate. Another 16% think

11/22/2010

One of the challenges of face-to-face encounters is determining which staffers will be responsible for tracking whether the visit happened and for obtaining documentation of the encounter.

11/22/2010

A new study commissioned by the National Association for Home Care & Hospice will provide momentum to legislation that would allow non-physician practitioners to certify and recertify for home health, the

11/22/2010

In an unexpected move, CMS is proposing to end the right of Medicare Advantage plans to require enrollee co-pays for home health services.

11/22/2010

Now forgetting to submit one OASIS won’t just put you at risk for a CMS state survey deficiency; it could result in claims denials.

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