Home Health Line
09/22/2008
CMS plans to survey home health pay-for-performance demo participants before November to find out what quality initiatives they’ve started as a result of the project.
09/22/2008
The former CMS official who represented the federal health agency in negotiations for the hospice wage index CMS now wants to scrap has backed industry opponents of the change.
09/22/2008
This Election Day Aspirus VNA Home Health & Comfort Care Hospice Services will offer flu shots at as many as 13 polling places in northern Wisconsin to set its clinics apart
09/22/2008
Brand-new risk-adjustment models have caused national scores for five of the 12 Home Health Compare outcomes to worsen, according to CMS’s Sept. 17 update.
09/22/2008
CMS: Expect PPS payment reconciliations by the end of the year. CMS plans to release change request (CR6250) in the next few weeks, detailing how the federal agency will reconcile
09/22/2008
Record-high gas prices have forced some agencies to share patients with other home health agencies, but that can also mean increases in referrals.
09/15/2008
With less than two months to go until Election Day, postconvention polls show the race for the Oval Office is just about a dead heat. But on the question of
09/15/2008
When it came to correct PPS coding, nurses at Guardian Home Care in Nampa, Idaho, suspected the agency’s outside coder was coding patients in the wrong order and omitting their
09/15/2008
Hospice leaders are concerned that a new CoP requirement will mean they have to shell out money for more extensive criminal background checks starting Dec. 2.
09/15/2008
A growing number of low-utilization payment adjustment (LUPA) episodes, worth an average of $125 per visit, mean agencies need to evaluate how they manage those patients or risk financial trouble.

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