Home Health Line
11/10/2008
Agencies that want to keep clinicians during times of high gas prices have started paying mileage costs based on the mileage from the clinician’s homes.
11/10/2008
CMS takes another step toward tying patient satisfaction to home health payments. CMS has submitted the Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (CAHPS) Home Health Care survey to the
11/10/2008
Although CMS has suggested that Medicare may be overpaying physicians for certifying and recertifying home health patients, it now says it merely will continue to analyze the issue and consider
11/10/2008
Claims-processing errors triggered by the new PPS – from multiple LUPA add-ons to “late” episodes paid as “early”– caused incorrect payments to agencies since Jan. 1. Below are the nine errors that RHHIs were directed to correct by Feb. 2, 2009, according to Change Request 6250, also known as Transmittal 397.
11/10/2008
Medicare’s outlier payments will swell to 8.1% of total home health payments this year and reach 10.3% next year – more than twice the 5% maximum prescribed by law, CMS projects
11/03/2008
Keeping chronically ill Medicare and Medicaid patients out of the hospital and the ER promises to become a revenue-builder for HHAs, some in the industry are predicting.
11/03/2008
Agencies will need to spend thousands of dollars on staff training before the scheduled 2011 implementation of ICD-10 changes –an unwelcome burden during the current economic downturn, experts say.
11/03/2008
The switch to ICD-10 could cost your agency more than CMS estimates if a private study of physician practices is any indication.
11/03/2008
Home Healthcare Partners came out ahead of its revenue goals for the year, in part due to 85 zebra-patterned Ford Focuses, designed to lure potential job candidates with one simple
11/03/2008
CMS is one step closer to finalizing the new OASIS-C document, which will introduce the biggest changes to the OASIS document in more than 10 years.

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