Home Health Line
03/23/2009
Last year, the marketer working for Universal Home Health & Hospice in rural Bellefontaine, Ohio, got an office of her own for the first time. It was one of the benefits
03/23/2009
Comments at a House hearing indicate lawmakers could well endorse the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission’s call for a 5.5% reduction in Medicare’s 2010 home health rates.
03/23/2009
Are you scrambling to find enough therapists to deliver the visits your patients need?
03/16/2009
Your agency may be fully compliant with the HIPAA privacy rules, but it happens HIPAA no longer is the final word on guarding patient information.
03/16/2009
Agencies continue to get dinged in state surveys for care-planning and acceptance-of-care deficiencies, the latest CMS data show.
03/16/2009
Sutter VNA & Hospice used key concepts from the book Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done to roll out a care transition program that gained as many as 1,000 new
03/16/2009
When one agency learned that two of its patients who died recently were registered sex offenders, agency managers wondered what policies they should have to protect clinicians who could be
03/16/2009
Home health agencies will see no further delays in adoption of ICD-10 code sets and electronic transaction standards.
03/16/2009
Correction: It’s Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius. HHL got it wrong in the March 3 issue.
03/16/2009
The subjectivity of “homebound” or the number of therapy visits a patient needs could make agencies vulnerable to denials now that recovery audit contractors (RACs) have begun auditing Medicare’s home

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