Home Health Line
05/17/2010

CMS’s home health webinar on RACs raises more questions. CMS hosted a 90-minute recovery audit contractor (RAC) conference call May 4 for home health and hospice providers, but it left

05/17/2010

The top Democrat and the top Republican on the Senate Finance Committee have sent letters to executives of the four largest for-profit home health agencies asking them to provide detailed

05/17/2010
The percentage of agencies cited for organizational and administrative errors during state surveys has climbed 10 percentage points in only two years. And agencies that get repeat deficiencies in those
05/10/2010

CMS has had a surprise change of heart about the obstacles its 36-month rule has put in the way of buying and selling HHAs and transferring ownership in them.

05/10/2010
Here’s a question to add to your next OASIS-C training session: Does the patient need to have a pain assessment conducted to answer “yes” to M2250e (interventions to monitor and
05/10/2010

CMS will add 13 new OASIS-C process measures to its Home Health Compare website in October. That will be the first new data on the website after a six-month blackout

05/10/2010

Patients who attend adult day care centers that aren’t certified or licensed may be putting their homebound status in jeopardy.

05/10/2010

How much can hiring physicians’ spouses as marketers help agencies increase their physician referrals in Florida’s highly competitive home health market?

05/10/2010
CMS could publish long-awaited revisions to the home health conditions of participation in a proposed rule in September, according to HHS’s semi-annual regulatory agenda, released April 26.
05/10/2010
It takes a physician’s signature on a plan of care to bill Medicaid or Medicare for home health services. But it doesn’t always work that way in Miami-Dade County, according

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