Home Health Line
12/15/2008
CMS has decided to bring down the curtain on efforts to recoup M0175-related overpayments, which actually have been stalled for nearly two years by successful agency appeals.
12/15/2008
Your list of Home Health Compare measures could get longer, as soon as December 2010.
12/15/2008
Create a Google-powered program to electronically transmit and catalogue digital wound photos, and you could save your clinicians time while improving patient outcomes.
12/15/2008
Correction: Home Health Licensing Specialists, which organized 34 turn-key HHAs in Texas, at one point was paying up to 50 clinicians and aides to care for the patients it needed
12/15/2008
Data show an overwhelming number of new for-profit agencies, and experts fear this growth could trigger steps to limit approval of more agencies.
12/08/2008
Relegating initial certification surveys to the lowest-priority category of Medicare tasks state surveyors are supposed to perform isn’t the only brake the government seems to have clamped on growth in
12/08/2008
The number of proprietary hospices in the past five years has exploded.
12/08/2008
Agencies that base their mileage reimbursement on the Internal Revenue Service’s allowable rate could save money starting Jan. 1. The IRS will decrease its allowable rate to 55 cents per
12/08/2008
Memo to CMS: If you’re trying to collect Medicare overpayments from shady suppliers of home medical equipment who aren’t paying up, try tapping the Medicare payments flowing to home health
12/08/2008
MedPAC discusses 2010 home health payments. The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission met Dec. 4 to discuss the “appropriateness of current costs” with data about beneficiaries access to care, changes in

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