Home Health Line
08/25/2008
Take extra time to interview potential new hires and get a variety of staff members – including clinicians – involved in the process. Then watch your turnover rate plummet.
08/25/2008
Even for patients who don’t speak English as their primary language, telehealth can help keep them out of the hospital, home health agencies have found.
08/25/2008
The former owner of several southern California home health agencies may be headed for an 18-month federal prison sentence after being convicted of evading federal taxes on more than $300,000
08/25/2008
Pay clinicians a flat rate for mileage, instead of reimbursing at a rate per mile, to control costs and increase clinician and office staff productivity.
08/25/2008
Almost 54% of all start-of-care assessments submitted in Q1 2008 list the maximum five secondary diagnoses, according to new data from national benchmark vendor Outcome Concept Systems in Seattle.
08/18/2008
Agencies could get more home health-specific support than originally expected from their quality improvement organizations (QIOs) in the next three years.
08/18/2008
When Stratford (Conn.) VNA noticed a spike in patients with co-pay requirements to 15 from zero in one year, its leaders realized they needed a system to collect them or
08/18/2008
All it takes to set up a dummy home medical supply company for defrauding Medicare, such as ones the government has uncovered in Florida, is fabricated contracts with wholesale suppliers,
08/11/2008
HIPAA enforcers finally have taken the gloves off in a case involving a home health agency’s HIPAA privacy breaches that resulted in a large-scale loss of patient data.
08/11/2008
You don’t have to settle for the per-visit rates Medicare Advantage plans offer. The VNA of Philadelphia has used a number of strategies, including taking copies of the federally established

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