Home Health Line
05/05/2008
Develop a process to change the fifth position of the HIPPS code from a letter to a number when no non-routine supplies are provided or risk returned claims and delayed
05/05/2008
According to CMS, a Medicaid change it has proposed could enable “thousands” of frail and disabled Medicaid beneficiaries to obtain home and community-based services (HCBS) that let them avoid nursing
05/05/2008
CMS announced Tuesday that it will not require hospices to report visits by non-hospice staff during inpatient stays when the new billing rules take effect July 1.
05/05/2008
There’s room for improvement in patient satisfaction when it comes to how your agency works with patients to arrange for care, according to results from a recent national patient satisfaction
04/28/2008
Your HHA might be headed for unsettling times if it supplies HME to patients directly or through suppliers it selects for reliability. At least, that’s the way it looks to
04/28/2008
Home health agencies have discovered a way to boost referrals by offering flu shots to homebound Medicare beneficiaries who are not on service with them.
04/28/2008
Set standards for handling incoming calls, train office staff in those standards and monitor their compliance, and you could increase patient satisfaction and maybe referrals too.
04/28/2008
Program your telehealth monitors to ask patients whether their medications have changed, and your agency could prevent hospitalizations and avoid survey deficiencies.
04/21/2008
Want to know which Medicare Advantage plans will expect your agency to collect a 15% co-pay from patients it has admitted? Don't put that question to CMS because it has
04/21/2008
So far the three-year test of home health patients receiving care at medical adult day care centers (MADC) has turned up unanticipated “challenges” and lower-than-anticipated enrollment, according to a CMS

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