Home Health Line
04/07/2008
HHAs soon could see a change in their scores for 11 OBQI outcomes, because CMS plans to risk adjust them.
04/07/2008
Your nurses can answer several functional OASIS questions by having patients perform one task, such as getting to the bathroom and on and off the toilet.
04/07/2008
The March 2008 Home Health Compare update shows progress in ambulation/locomotion and bathing scores. Each saw a one percentage-point increase from December 2007 scores, according to Home Health Compare. Scores
03/31/2008
Federally mandated background checks based partly on state and national fingerprint searches could be in the future for home health agencies when hiring clinicians and aides.
03/31/2008
As home health agencies struggle over the perennial question of how to pay their nurses – hourly, salary or per-visit – some have found that a mix of these methods may be
03/31/2008
CMS awards RHHI contract to NGS. The National Government Services (NGS) will administer claims for Connecticut and New York starting no later than November 2008, according to a March 18
03/31/2008
With the increased importance of therapy in the 2008 PPS, shortages of therapists have led at least one agency to pay a PT sign-on bonus of $10,000.
03/20/2008
Remember the children's health insurance bill with its home health freeze that Democrats pushed through the House last summer? It died in the Senate – but look out. Neither the bill
03/20/2008
Reason codes might provide your agency with the missing ingredient it needs to accurately predict therapy visits and support the therapy visits that it’s already done.
03/20/2008
For-profit hospices were in the black by an average 11.8% in 2005 while non-profits were 2.8% in the red.

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