Home Health Line
07/05/2010

Are you looking for that competitive edge that also will help you improve patient satisfaction and outcome scores?

07/05/2010

Yet another short-term reprieve, this one for five months through Nov. 30, is the latest action by Congress to dodge the threatened 21% physician pay cuts.

07/05/2010

Providers have successfully won 64.4% of appeal of recovery audit contractor overpayments, according to new data from CMS’s three-year RAC demonstration.

07/05/2010

Seven indicted in alleged $5 million fraud scheme in Houston. The scheme involved paying kickbacks for recruiting Medicare beneficiaries for home health services at Family Healthcare Services in Houston, according

07/05/2010

Claims with V57.1 (other physical therapy) as a primary diagnosis are being singled out by regional home health intermediaries, coding experts report.

06/28/2010

The latest development in the investigation surrounding Louisiana- based Amedisys involves a class action lawsuit claiming the company’s reported earnings were impacted by intentionally inflated therapy visits.

06/28/2010

Policies and procedures for protecting patient health information need to extend to ex-employees, too.

06/28/2010

Infusion therapy could present more opportunities for home health agencies in the future if CMS adopts recent recommendations to expand Medicare coverage for those services.

06/28/2010
by: John Gilliland

The three-year anniversary of the Evelyn Coke v. Long Island Care at Home case coupled with recent congressional attention has caused the home care industry to question the future of

06/28/2010

After years of averting big reductions in physician payments under Medicare’s standard growth rate (SGR) formula, a House and Senate stalemate over how to prevent the latest 21% cut has

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