Home Health Line
12/24/2007
Print a newsletter in multiple languages to educate referral sources and potential patients about your services, and you could nearly triple your referrals.
12/24/2007
Man sentenced for Medicare fraud involving home health. An Altadena, Calif., man was sentenced to 10 years in federal prison for his part in a home health care scheme that
12/24/2007
You soon could access ICD-9-CM code sets with instructional tips and scenarios that aid accurate OASIS diagnosis coding directly from your point-of-care clinical capture device as well as back-office billing
12/24/2007
Expect private fee-for-service plans to pay your agency under the 2008 PPS rules. Plans that fail to do that would be violating their Medicare Advantage contracts and run the risk
12/24/2007
Be careful when using “as needed” on the plan of care if you want to avoid getting slapped with a deficiency during your next CMS survey.
12/14/2007
Home health agencies may get their wish this holiday season, a CMS contingency plan to assure a steady cash flow of Medicare dollars during the transition to the 2008 PPS,
12/14/2007
Have supplies sent directly to the patients’ homes as a way to secure accurate non-routine supply payments in 2008.
12/14/2007
Create a clinical career ladder that gives clinicians a place to move up within the company and you could cut your turnover rate in half, if one agency is any
12/14/2007
CMS debuted this week two new Home Health Compare outcomes on its Web site:The percentage of patients whose wound improved or healed after an operation. The national average for this
12/14/2007
Adopt programs to manage care of patients with specific chronic diseases, such as COPD and CHF, and they might help fatten Medicare margins and referrals.

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