Home Health Line
04/13/2009
The pending Independence at Home Act, which would provide reimbursement for home visits to beneficiaries with multiple chronic illnesses who aren’t eligible for Medicare’s standard home health benefit, looks like
04/13/2009
If Congress authorizes a new management benefit for chronically ill Medicare beneficiaries, Baptist Home Health Network is more than ready to participate.
04/13/2009
Reduce your clinicians’ IT training time by 50% by requiring all new clinicians to be competent in key computer skills.
04/13/2009
The tough amendments Florida added to its home health licensing requirements last summer, partly to stem rampant fraudulent practices in Miami-Dade County [HHL 2/16/09], are having an impact on agencies
04/13/2009
Start a program to treat low-vision patients and your agency could increase revenue, boost referrals and decrease hospitalizations.
04/06/2009
A new CMS policy for Medicare Advantage plans could mean that plans are discriminating against “high-cost enrollees” by charging high co-insurance payments. It also could mean fewer instances of home
04/06/2009
OASIS-C process measure cost estimates for training clinicians, modifying screening tools and adjusting software range vary from $100,000 to almost nothing, HHL’s recent survey results show.
04/06/2009
Home health recovery audit contractor reviews (RACs) that were scheduled to begin in some areas on March 1, have been delayed until later this summer, a CMS representative told 526
04/06/2009
Some hospitals are making it harder for outside home health agencies to contact their own patients and win referrals.
04/06/2009
Hiring a telecommunications auditor could save your agency as much as $20,000 in one year.

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