Home Health Line
07/27/2009
A pro-hospice provision included in the health care reform bill cleared by the House Ways & Means Committee on July 17 would postpone CMS’s controversial change in the hospice wage index
07/27/2009
Palmetto conducts hospice probe reviews. About 20% of hospice providers billing to regional home health intermediary Palmetto GBA will receive probe reviews for longer non-cancer lengths-of-stay, a Palmetto spokesman says.
07/27/2009
HHAs fear double-digit profit slumps, the need for salary freezes in 2009 and a forced reduction in visits per episode as a result of home health proposals in the bill
07/27/2009
Your agency’s medical director could be a secret weapon to ensure that physicians refer patients to hospice at the correct time.
07/20/2009
Transitional care, a method of reducing re-hospitalizations that could be less traumatic for the home health industry than bundled post-acute care payments, has found a toehold in the first health
07/20/2009
HHAs may have protection against wound-related survey deficiencies in the form of a new position paper from the Wound Ostomy Continence Nurses (WOCN) Society.
07/20/2009
Type 2 diabetes patients monitored by telehealth units cost Medicare more money than patients who weren’t monitored, according to results from a recent CMS-sponsored study. That’s a negative for advocates
07/20/2009
Here are two frequently asked questions and answers about the Recovery Audit Contractor (RAC) program.
07/20/2009
Agencies billing to all three RHHIs received overpayments and underpayments from July 7 through July 9.
07/20/2009
CMS has posted a revised OASIS-C document that is almost identical to the last version it released in March. Although CMS still is waiting for final approval of OASIS-C from

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