Home Health Line
08/30/2010

Include all types of employees on your patient-satisfaction team to improve its overall effectiveness.

08/30/2010

New home health grouper software that accounts for Oct. 1 ICD-9 code updates is now available for agencies to download.

08/30/2010

CMS released the revised Outcomes-Based Quality Monitoring (OBQM) Manual on Aug. 4. Updated for OASIS-C, the manual discusses the “Agency Patient-Related Characteristics Report,” which was formerly known as the case-mix

08/30/2010

A closer look at the calculations behind CMS’s proposed home health payment cuts has some agencies upset about the government’s attempt to double dip into their payments.

08/23/2010

For six years, Central Maine Medical Center relied on an in-house committee comprised of hospitalists, cardiologists, nurse specialists, a pharmacist and a dietician to assure the best inpatient care for

08/23/2010

If more than 5% of your Medicare payments are from outliers, you could be at risk for an audit and possibly a hefty overpayment demand from a zone program integrity

08/23/2010

Recent CMS guidance to auditors could mean that illegible physician signatures on orders or other documentation might put agencies at risk for denials.

08/23/2010

The average per-hour cost for private pay home health aides has dropped 14.8% percent since 2008, according to a new national survey.

08/23/2010

CMS is developing a test of “care teams” to treat chronically ill Medicare beneficiaries at home.

08/23/2010

World Health Organization declares H1N1 pandemic over. The H1N1 virus “has largely run its course,” WHO Director-General Dr. Margaret Chan said Aug. 10. But in the “post-pandemic period,” the virus

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