Home Health Line
05/11/2009
Hospices should prepare to report new visit information to CMS starting in January.
05/11/2009
Look for major changes in HHA dealings with Medicare Advantage plans if Congress endorses the proposal in President Barack Obama’s FY 2010 budget to set Medicare plan rates through competitive
05/11/2009
An initiative in Florida and one by a national hospice association is bringing the industry closer to developing national benchmarks for quality outcomes.
05/04/2009
CMS is on track to restart its DMEPOS competitive bidding machinery – for an estimated $1 billion in savings on durable medical equipment, prosthetics, orthotics and supplies. But that’s a worry
05/04/2009
For clues about what the Recovery Audit Contractors (RACs) will look for in home health starting this summer, agencies can look to other healthcare providers, whose claims and records already
05/04/2009
San Diego Hospice moved to online time cards, cutting down to eight hours from 48 hours the time the payroll department once spent auditing and entering time-card information – an 80%
05/04/2009
Florida has added more heft to its laws aimed at curbing home health and medical equipment fraud. New enforcement measures include caps on issuance of new HHA licenses in certain
05/04/2009
Give your clinicians a tool to make sure they have patients demonstrate functional abilities during start-of-care assessments, and your agency could become a member of the HomeCare Elite, the top
04/27/2009
Many agencies are experiencing an unaccustomed phenomenon: More RN applicants than positions to fill.
04/27/2009
In what may be a first step toward publicly reporting hospice quality data, Florida hospices are voluntarily submitting family satisfaction data for consumers’ use.

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