Home Health Line
03/09/2009
Medicare rate reductions may be in store for HHAs, but at least the industry will be getting a steady supporter of home care in Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius, President Barack
03/09/2009
The home health industry is sitting smack in the path of what could be the perfect Medicare payment storm.
03/09/2009
Create a cultural sensitivity program tailored to the minorities in your community, and your agency could increase referrals and improve clinical outcomes.
03/09/2009
Analyze your non-Medicare payers’ payment habits and paperwork preferences, and you could uncover thousands of dollars in new business.
03/09/2009
Don’t get too excited if you saw the “final” OASIS-C document on the CMS Web page this week.
03/09/2009
Home health agencies can shave hours of time off of scheduling, intake and discharge planning by making creative use of instant messaging (IM) and text messaging.
03/09/2009
Fewer than 40% of home health executives ranked themselves as “strong” in areas such as accounting, budgeting and financial planning. And those scores are several percentage points below HHL’s first
03/09/2009
Home Care of Rochester (N.Y.) learned that its Hispanic patients took an average of 14 medications a day, prompting the agency to create this tool to help patients track their medications.
03/02/2009
If theft or plain carelessness causes your agency to lose a laptop loaded with unencrypted patient information, better brace for much stricter HIPAA enforcement than has occurred until now.
03/02/2009
Hospital-based agencies are stepping up their marketing efforts to boost Medicare referrals, and some freestanding agencies are feeling more threatened by these competitors than usual.

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