Home Health Line
01/25/2010
MedPAC has no way to assess hospice quality of care, because there’s no publicly available data that covers all hospices. But that could change soon.
01/25/2010
With education and guidance, your physical therapists can perform the medication reviews that are part of OASIS-C, saving your agency the $100 it might pay a nurse for a non-billable
01/25/2010

Participation in the CMS pay-for-performance demonstration project earned one agency a check for $33,000.

01/25/2010

Changing your company’s mandatory nurse preceptor program into a voluntary one might be the way to slow employee turnover.

01/25/2010
by: Steve Everhart

Stop. Call a timeout, take a step back and start a thorough and detailed assessment of your business.

01/25/2010
If your agency is focused solely on teaching patients how to prevent falls and hospitalizations, you might be missing a key opportunity – teaching caregivers.
01/18/2010
Power wheelchairs, a popular way of cheating Medicare because of their high cost, again are getting the attention of federal anti-fraud enforcers.
01/18/2010

The cut in the hospice inflation update now pending on Capitol Hill could be the first in a series of changes that Congress makes to contain Medicare costs for that

01/18/2010

Can a hospital favor its own HHA by designating nonaffiliated home health agencies as “vendors” and preventing them from seeing referred patients in the hospital?

01/18/2010

Agencies should be careful when using negative pressure wound therapy (NPWT) on certain patients, because it could lead to serious complications or even death.

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