Home Health Line
09/07/2009
This table corrects data that ran in the Aug. 31, 2009, issue of HHL in which the labels for the aide and MSW columns were switched. The OCS data represent 300,000 episodes that ended in the first quarter of 2009.
09/07/2009
Your agency could cut its marketing costs by using an outside marketer instead of hiring its own.
08/31/2009
Here’s a new concern for agencies that equip clinicians with laptops or hand-held-devices: A privacy breach-notification rule just made final by HHS means any HHA that hasn’t encrypted patient information
08/31/2009
All home health staffers in New York state will be required to get a seasonal flu vaccine before Nov. 30, a move that other states could follow.
08/31/2009
CMS has released an updated version of the Abt Associates analysis that underlies its controversial case-mix adjustments – a step the National Association for Home Care & Hospice believes could help in
08/31/2009
The economic downturn has caused financial distress for family caregivers, and some HHAs are helping patients by providing more social support services and charity visits.
08/31/2009
HHA owners plead guilty to pay-for-referral schemes. Two of the six Detroit-area HHA owners accused earlier this year of participating in one of the largest home health pay-for-referrals schemes ever
08/31/2009
The average number of social work visits per episode for the 30 most common HHRGs has increased dramatically.
08/24/2009
You’re not in our network, and we won’t pay you.
08/24/2009
Texas HHAs are finding that a unique Home Health Insurance Cooperative linking in-network and outof- network agencies cushions the consequences of having a Medicare private fee-for-service plan enrollee referred when

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