Home Health Line
08/24/2009
Start working now with your software vendors to be in compliance with CMS’s patient-satisfaction requirement, which could take effect in 2010.
08/24/2009
Here’s how to save money on insurance premiums: Ensure that workers’ compensation plans clearly indicate who cares directly for patients and who does not.
08/24/2009
New York state HHAs and other providers have pushed through a landmark managed care bill that shortens pre-authorization periods, reduces billing times and improves provider appeal rights.
08/24/2009
Pay for performance is increasingly certain of a permanent place in the Medicare landscape. That’s one indirect message in an Aug. 17 CMS report that three P4P demonstrations are showing
08/17/2009
CMS has approved seven audit issues that one recovery audit contractor (RAC) will use as a target for requesting overpayments for outpatient physician and hospital claims.
08/17/2009
Leaving visit notes in a patient’s home may be a tempting way for clinicians to communicate with each other, ensure continuity of care and avoid duplicating services on multi-disciplinary cases.
08/17/2009
Most preventive medicine ideas, including ones that might have a role for home health, have received another dose of Congressional Budget Office (CBO) skepticism.
08/17/2009
CMS corrects wage index in republished rule. Agencies that calculated next year’s budgets using the wage index tables published Aug. 6 as part of the 2010 PPS proposed rule will
08/17/2009
The reintroduction of the pro-union Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA) in the new Congress is only the start of the upheaval private duty soon will experience. A host of new
08/17/2009
Turn away from banks and credit card companies and look to alternative financing to sustain and even grow your company in this tough economy.

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