Home Health Line
08/11/2008
Home health agencies that rarely encounter non- English speaking patients don’t have to turn one away for lack of staff language capabilities. Instead, they can try a phone-in interpretation service,
08/11/2008
Commenters’ fears that Medicare payment reductions under proposed changes in the hospice wage index would hurt many non-profit hospices didn’t convince CMS to change its plans.
08/04/2008
Florida’s new home health licensing amendments aimed at extinguishing payments or gifts to referring providers may not limit companies that automate hospital discharge planning as once thought. That’s unless the
08/04/2008
With the 2008 PPS demanding correct codes and code-sequencing for up to six patient conditions, smaller agencies like Coe Home Health in the Dallas suburb of Mansfield, Texas, are outsourcing
08/04/2008
Want to recruit bilingual clinicians and boost referrals? Start a community advisory committee in the non-English-speaking communities you serve.
08/04/2008
Home health agencies are adopting “incident reports” to document unobserved falls as part of their falls prevention programs. But these reports, which often contain subjective information about the falls, shouldn’t
08/04/2008
CMS clarifies the term “charge.” To comply with new hospice billing requirements, effective July 1, hospices need to report charges for each visit made by each discipline [HHL 7/21/08]. These
08/04/2008
The first analysis of visits per HHRG under the 2008 PPS reveals an average of 11.6 visits per episode for the most common score – an early episode, low therapy C3F2S1.
07/28/2008
Oakwood Home Care reduced its accounts receivable older than 90 days to 3% from 30% by setting standards for collecting the oldest outstanding claims and holding billing staff accountable.
07/28/2008
CMS should rethink its plan to base Medicare's hospice payments on the hospital wage index, organizations that represent hospices have urged in comments on CMS’s proposals published May 1.

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