Home Health Line
11/17/2008
Chalk up another reason to believe that Medicare’s fat payments to Medicare Advantage plans, especially private fee-for-service plans, will be much thinner in the future – and that the record-high percentage
11/17/2008
Coders should have two to three days of intensive training about three to six months before the implementation of ICD-10, conclude the American Health Information Management Association and American Hospital
11/17/2008
Despite the additional data-collection burden, hospices welcome new requirements proposed by CMS as a way to represent accurately what services they provide.
11/17/2008
Agencies should pay attention to overlooked OASIS questions, such as M0220, because their answers could affect acute-care hospitalization scores.
11/17/2008
Gas prices have risen and fallen dramatically this year. Should your agency have a system to adjust mileage reimbursement rates to reflect changing prices at the pump?
11/17/2008
Crafting legislation to get rid of the flawed “sustainable growth-rate” (SGR) formula, which each year threatens physicians with Medicare payment turmoil, ranks just after health care reform on the 2009
11/10/2008
CMS has given the regional home health intermediaries until Feb. 2, 2009, to correct nine claims-processing errors triggered by the PPS changes.
11/10/2008
Publically held home health giants Amedisys and Gentiva reported strong third-quarter earnings at a time when the national economy appeared to be tumbling toward recession.
11/10/2008
The economy has had a negative impact on charitable donations, which could spell trouble for nonprofit home health agencies and hospices that rely on public contributions for their operating funds.
11/10/2008
A federal court in Philadelphia has frozen nearly $8.6 million held in nearly four dozen accounts and a safety deposit box controlled by individuals associated with Home Care Hospice, whose

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