Home Health Line
05/10/2010
When CMS changes the PPS therapy thresholds that are worth more money, agencies are quick to follow, recent data show. And CMS is noticing.
05/03/2010

Home health agencies that don’t use telehealth to monitor patients have a new reason to rethink the issue.

05/03/2010

One multi-office Texas home health agency is experiencing the unwanted attention of the new Medicare contractors aimed at eliminating fraud and abuse.

05/03/2010

You may have heard about CMS’s new anti-fraud contractors called zone program integrity contractors (ZPICs). But do you know how they operate and when they might attack?

05/03/2010
For surgical wounds that are healing with the help of staples, tape or sutures, clinicians should stick to two responses for OASIS-C case-mix question M1342 (status of most problematic [observable]
05/03/2010

One Wisconsin agency thinks it has discovered a way to prepare for its next Joint Commission survey by using CMS’s standardized patient-satisfaction tool. But adding to the tool would have

05/03/2010

GAO report shows payment delays during MAC transitions. An accelerated schedule to transition from previous Medicare intermediaries to Medicare Administrative Contractors (MACs) led to payment delays for providers, including physicians

05/03/2010
One side effect of OASIS-C: It’s causing some home health agencies to hire staff as a way to maintain productivity, despite the still slumping economy.
04/26/2010

The chance of home health or private duty agencies being visited by one of Uncle Sam’s wage-and-hour investigators has increased with a Labor Department announcement that it has added 250

04/26/2010
During a compliance-audit interview, Home Health Care of East Tennessee discovered that one of its contract employees was exposing the agency to the risk of a HIPAA violation by transmitting

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