Home Health Line
02/09/2009
The economic stimulus bill now before Congress would mandate a nationwide health records system to foster more accurate – and lower-cost – patient care, but many home health agencies are likely to
02/09/2009
Agencies that have waited for thousands of dollars in corrected payments on “late”-episode claims paid as “early” episodes and eight other PPS-related claims-processing issues might have to wait longer.
02/02/2009
With state deficits mounting at the same time thousands of newly unemployed workers are applying for Medicaid coverage, today’s economic hard times soon could hit the bottom lines of HHAs
02/02/2009
The home health licensure amendments Florida adopted in 2008 have chilled growth in the number of new agency applications.
02/02/2009
Could Florida’s new licensure amendments survive a legal challenge?
02/02/2009
CMS officials have admitted at least one mistake in the recently released Attachment D coding guidance. The Neuro 3 case-mix category, which deals with strokes, was incorrectly listed as one
02/02/2009
Create an interactive online job application and you could increase your volume of candidates by 50% in just one year.
02/02/2009
Give your managers this tool to track their clinicians’ performance, and you could boost productivity.
02/02/2009
A decrease in monthly referrals has pushed agencies to make almost three more in-person marketing visits to referral sources per day than they did four years ago, new data show.
01/26/2009
Two Alabama nurses who filed qui tam whistleblower suits alleging extensive Medicare fraud by SouthernCare, a 15-state hospice provider, will be richer by more than $1.5 million each under a

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