Home Health Line
10/19/2009
Three agencies have earned a spot for four straight years among the top 100 agencies in the country based on clinical and financial outcomes.
10/19/2009
Agencies now have a new audit tool that guides them through the three primary areas that RACs likely will target when reviewing claims for incorrect payments.
10/19/2009
The Senate Finance Committee’s version of health care reform, which passed Oct. 13, holds some good news for agencies despite its call for bundled post-acute payments that could impact referrals.
10/19/2009
Agencies’ nurse liaisons in hospitals play an important role in improving care coordination and getting referrals. But agencies need to be careful that liaison nurses don’t overstep their boundaries and
10/19/2009
This one-page tool asks agencies to answer “yes, no or NA” indicating whether the agency gathered necessary documentation related to the orders, claims, visit notes and coding.
10/12/2009
Organizations representing much of the industry have given CMS a big thumbs up to its proposed 10% cap on outlier payments, but there still are some questions about how and
10/12/2009
CMS’s proposed 10% outlier cap (see story, “Home care associations question timing of the outlier recoupments”) isn’t the only 10% figure to keep an eye on.
10/12/2009
Comments on CMS’s proposed 10% outlier cap (see story, “Home care associations question timing of the outlier recoupments”), were favorable. However, commenters are taking aim at other CMS-proposed changes, published
10/12/2009
The Office of Inspector General released its 2010 workplan Oct. 1, and it outlines plans to investigate the following home health topics:Revenue and profit. OIG is suspicious of HHA revenues
10/12/2009
Agencies need to refine their systems for identifying patients at risk for hospitalization this flu season, especially if patient care is interrupted by the H1N1 outbreak.

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