Home Health Line
11/01/2010

As reports of a new resurgence of bed bugs multiply, home health agencies should adopt staff policies to avoid spreading the bugs inadvertently.

11/01/2010

Hospices that have had trouble getting skilled nursing facilities to sign written agreements allowing the hospice to provide care to residents soon could have CMS regulations to back them up.

11/01/2010

Applegate Home Care and Hospice has steered clear of medical necessity denials by adding a “plan-for-next-visit” remark to its visit notes in January 2009.

11/01/2010

Physicians are just over a month away from a 23% cut in Medicare payments, as prescribed by the latest temporary postponement of the defective sustainable growth rate (SGR) payment formula.

11/01/2010

The glitch in CMS’s Fiscal Intermediary Standard System (FISS) that caused certain ICD-9-CM diagnosis and procedure codes to be declared invalid is resolved, according to a news alert released by

11/01/2010

This corrected list has the names of all HomeCare Elite agencies that were ranked in the top 500 for all five years of the HomeCare Elite.

11/01/2010

The increase in fatal crashes that involve distracted driving has prompted the Department of Transportation and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration to launch a campaign to reduce driving distractions,

10/25/2010

CMS is having second thoughts about the compliance records of certain DME providers it has selected as competitive bidding winners. That increases uncertainty about who will be supplying beneficiaries with

10/25/2010

CMS has delayed the implementation of the new Provider Enrollment Chain and Ownership System (PECOS) enrollment requirement again.

10/25/2010

Agencies continue to receive additional documentation requests (ADRs) to support the homebound status of their patients. In addition, homebound status has been a major focus of zone program integrity contractor

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