Home Health Line
06/08/2009
New triage tools and protocols can make your hospice more responsive and your patients more satisfied, say hospice executives who’ve tried them.
06/08/2009
CMS’s annual ICD-9-CM codes update provides two new stroke-related codes that could become case-mix in October, according to coding experts.
06/08/2009
The economic downturn is affecting home health productivity differently for agencies across the country.
05/25/2009
New Senate Finance Committee options seem to favor a series of Medicare Payment Advisory Commission recommendations for home health payment cuts.
05/25/2009
Four publicly traded home health companies posted favorable figures for the first quarter 2009. But experts don’t expect this sunny outlook to last.
05/25/2009
Agencies say CMS’s efforts to speed up the advanced beneficiary notice (ABN) process won’t help.
05/25/2009
You thought building a telehealth business case for home health patients was difficult. Try making that case for hospice patients.
05/25/2009
Getting her executive certification helped Bonnie Mello, home care director for Roper St. Francis Home Care in Charleston, S.C., improve her agency’s referral rate and build her agency’s telehealth program.
05/25/2009
Home health anti-fraud task forces are expanding their efforts to Houston and Detroit, the Justice Department and HHS announced May 20.
05/18/2009
Hospital control of the Medicare dollars to pay for certain home health patients could be further off than first thought, given strong hospital industry reservations.

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