Home Health Line
07/26/2010

You’ll no longer get case-mix points for the most commonly coded form of hypertension, 401.9 (Essential hypertension, unspecified), if CMS has its way.

07/26/2010

Home health agencies who participate in a federal patient-satisfaction survey program may soon have an appeals process by which they can challenge CMS, according to the proposed PPS rule.

07/26/2010

CMS is considering a change to the hospice cap calculation that would allow payments for claims with dates of service spanning two fiscal years to be split between both years,

07/26/2010

Three outcome measures removed from Home Health Compare. CMS will remove discharge to community, improvement of urinary incontinence and emergency care for wounds from its publicly reported outcomes. The federal

07/19/2010

<p> Home health agency participation in &ldquo;care teams&rdquo; that treat Medicare beneficiaries who are chronically ill but not home-bound may be tested by CMS sooner than expected.</p>

07/19/2010

Would CMS consider it a change of ownership under the 36-month rule if an owner transfers all of his agency’s stock to the same person but in increments equal to

07/19/2010

The recent heat wave that rolled through the East Coast forced agencies to get creative in their methods for protecting at-risk patients.

07/19/2010

A marketer without much home health experience might think it’s a good idea to take a nursing home administrator to a $300 dinner.

07/19/2010

Hospices nationwide are expanding and redeveloping their bereavement camps as a way to give back to the community and strengthen their reputations as healthcare providers.

07/19/2010

Effective compliance training “is not one-size-fits-all,” says home health attorney Robert Markette of Gilliland & Markette in Indianapolis.

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