Home Health Line
01/05/2009
A bill to let unions represent workers without needing to first win a secret-ballot election isn’t the only labor legislation employers, including home health agencies, need to keep an eye
01/05/2009
CMS’s recent release of new diagnosis coding guidelines could adversely affect your bottom line, coding experts say.
01/05/2009
Develop electronic flags that alert staff at your agency’s answering service to keep calling until they get through to on-call clinicians. That’s how 3HC in Goldsboro, N.C., ensures it provides
12/22/2008
As regulators tighten their interpretation of the tough, anti-fraud licensing rules Florida put in place this summer, compliant agencies find themselves caught in a web they didn’t anticipate.
12/22/2008
With coffee, cookies and free lunches off the marketing table, Florida agencies have developed ways to get physicians’ office staff on their side.
12/22/2008
Agencies need more work refining their non-routine supply-tracking processes, new data show.
12/22/2008
While agencies will have to document whether they completed a falls assessment or if they initiated interventions for preventing falls, it’s unlikely that these proposed new OASIS-C process measures will
12/22/2008
Home health recruiters have ventured beyond traditional online recruiting tools to use sites, such as Craigslist.com and specialty job boards, to find talented job candidates.
12/22/2008
Home Health Compare update - Improvement in urinary incontinence dropped one percentage point to 48% in the Dec. 18 update of Home Health Compare. The remaining outcomes remained unchanged from the
12/15/2008
The next round of Medicare Payment Advisory Commission recommendations to Congress could include some unpleasant medicine for the industry – a Medicare base-rate reduction beyond the 2.75 percentage-point reductions in 2008-2010

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