Home Health Line
08/02/2010

This table shows the average number of clinical domain points for each of the related OASIS-C case-mix questions. For many of the items, the average number of clinical points decreased

08/02/2010

In 2008, Visiting Nurse Association of St. Luke’s uncovered it had let $230,000 in Medicare revenue fly out of the door over a six-month period, all because of LUPAs.

08/02/2010

CMS clarifies questions about payer changes, heart failure follow-up and patient noncompliance relating to functional items in the July update to its OASIS-C Q&As.

08/02/2010

Home health agencies could be headed for another round of trying to help patients panicked by the threat of losing local providers of oxygen, diabetic supplies and other medical products.

08/02/2010

When a young marketer recommended that The Homemakers Health Services join Facebook, the agency’s community relations director answered with one word: no.

08/02/2010

Hospices mentioned in proposed rule on patient-visitation requirements for hospitals. A proposed rule, published June 28, seeks to protect patient-visitation rights for patients in hospitals and possibly hospice. The proposed

07/26/2010

Worse-than-expected earnings have forced home health giant Amedisys to re-evaluate its corporate structure and plan for growth for 2010, company officials said in a July 13 conference call.

07/26/2010

Proposed changes in the recently released home health PPS rule promise harder times ahead.

07/26/2010

To justify therapy use in home health, CMS has proposed that therapists provide more detailed and more frequent documentation, which experts anticipate could add up to three hours of documentation

07/26/2010

Physicians or non-physician practitioners will be required to have face-to-face encounters with home health and hospice patients for agencies to receive payment, if provisions in CMS’s proposed rule become final.

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