Home Health Line
06/02/2008
CMS released an advanced copy of the long-awaited final hospice Conditions of Participation Tuesday.
05/26/2008
Now that agencies are getting final episode payments under the revised PPS, it’s clear the changes “are increasing the gulf between the haves and have-nots,” in terms of agency’s profitability
05/26/2008
The RHHIs will stop counting Medicare-denied claims as “adjacent” episodes when determining episode timing, effective Oct. 6.
05/26/2008
OASIS question M0110 (episode timing) is one of the biggest financial drivers in the 2008 PPS. But clinicians need to consider the many nuances of the question when determining whether
05/26/2008
Rising gas prices have driven some home health agencies that already lease or buy cars to tweak their programs.
05/26/2008
Create separate business entities for your private duty and Medicare arms, and you will avoid survey stresses and keep both branches running smoothly.
05/26/2008
If there are winners and losers under the 2008 PPS changes, Amedisys could be placed in the former group and Gentiva in the latter – though not by much either way.
05/19/2008
CMS has created new risk-adjustment models for all 41 OBQI outcome measures, a move that could help “level the playing field” for agencies with sicker patients and put the federal
05/19/2008
CMS will issue a correction with its July 7 quarterly software release to resolve a claims-processing glitch that resulted in underpayments for many agencies, Wil Gehne, CMS’s post-acute care specialist,
05/19/2008
Give clinicians tools to electronically transfer patient information back to the office, and you could cut costs and prevent losing clinicians in a time of record-high gas prices.

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