Home Health Line
04/27/2009
CMS’s proposed changes to the 2010 hospice wage index call for a 75% cut in the budget neutrality adjustment factor (BNAF). The federal agency also proposed a requirement for a
04/27/2009
Use telehealth to negotiate better payments from Medicare Advantage plans, and your agency could see up to $420 more per episode.
04/27/2009
Advertising may be one of the lowest priorities on many HHAs’ marketing to-do lists. But it can be a solid business driver.
04/27/2009
Try a new technology called a “virtual server” and you could increase your processing capacity and cut costs.
04/20/2009
There are signs that incentives for referrals are trumping good outcomes when referral sources choose where to send patients, recent survey results show. All of this could compromise patient’s free
04/20/2009
Agencies in 14 targeted communities have started working with their Quality Improvement Organizations to reduce acute-care hospitalizations using a new spin, improving the transition of care across settings. [For a
04/20/2009
When a patient is in a skilled nursing facility (SNF) and also needs hospice care, the hospice risks CMS survey citations it doesn’t specify on the plan of care the
04/20/2009
Home health mergers and acquisition activity has slowed in the past six months, but the news is better in the home health market than in many, experts say.
04/20/2009
Stabilize growth. Buyers won’t pay a premium for agencies that need to be fixed up, and they won’t pay extra for agencies with 20% growth or more, which they suspect
04/20/2009
To earn a spot among the top 20% - and thus increase your chances for P4P rewards – you need to score 23% or less for acute care hospitalization scores, according to

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