Home Health Line
11/02/2007
HHAs could continue to get socked with the $1,600 fee that CMS now expects them to pay every time surveyors revisit them to confirm that a certification, recertification or complaint
11/02/2007
Set up dedicated phone lines for incoming calls if you want to ensure a quick response during an emergency like the fires in California last week.
11/02/2007
Have an independent valuation consultant decide the local fair-market compensation rate and make that the guide in negotiations with practitioners if you want to protect yourself against Medicare anti-kickback enforcement.
11/02/2007
Create a timely billing process if you want to prevent losing thousands, even hundreds of thousands of dollars as CMS implements the new PPS system in 2008.
11/02/2007
A look at regional PPS data shows that agencies in the Southwest will get hit the hardest by the new PPS, receiving a 5.33% decrease in payment in 2008, compared
10/26/2007
Give your nurses and therapists a no-cost monthly productivity calendar page with hours per visit penciled in for each work day, along with weekly and monthly averages.
10/26/2007
A new OASIS “test” adds 30 new process measures that agencies fear would increase the administrative burden for clinicians to complete an already lengthy form.
10/26/2007
Include your nurses in peer-to-peer interviews and you could decrease your turnover rates by more than two percentage points.
10/26/2007
As CMS already has made clear, an episode with 20 or more therapy visits will do more for your agency's bottom line next year.
10/19/2007
CMS remains close-lipped on some key answers the industry wants about how the dragnet-style fraud demo in Houston and Los Angeles metro areas will work.

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