Home Health Line
04/21/2008
Your list of case-mix diagnoses could expand, starting Oct. 1, given CMS’s list of more than 300 new codes.
04/21/2008
To receive payments after July 1 hospices need to report the number and cost of visits, but this information isn’t easy to get when the hospital or skilled nursing facility
04/21/2008
There’s no guarantee that agencies looking to buy telehealth will save on visit costs, but the majority of HHAs using this technology have reduced their acute-care hospitalization scores, a new
04/14/2008
When it comes to the nearly 11 percentage-point reduction in home health payments over four years that CMS wrote into the PPS revisions to offset case-mix “creep,” the official word
04/14/2008
While many home health agencies are switching from paper to laptops, two West Coast agencies have taken a step in the opposite direction. They’ve traded their laptops for a scanning
04/14/2008
Create and sell a cookbook with recipes from patients and their families to boost referrals and awareness about your hospice.
04/14/2008
OASIS revisions expected late 2009, CMS says. The new proposed OASIS data set, OASIS-C, which includes the addition of 30 new process measures, won’t be finalized until late 2009, at
04/14/2008
Just three months after CMS shifted the financial rewards for agencies predicting 10 or more therapy visits, the industry has responded with a decrease in the number of cases that
04/07/2008
The PPS changes, on average, haven’t produced the claims payments anticipated by the 1,400 or so home health agencies in the Strategic Healthcare Programs database – at least not in the
04/07/2008
If the government succeeds in its current efforts to learn which setting is most appropriate for Medicare patients after an acute-care hospital stay, home health could be a winner, thanks

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