Home Health & Hospice Week
HHA Chains Perform Below Expectations
The U.S. Senate and Securities and Exchange Commission's probes into home health therapy may have started to affect publicly traded companies' earnings reported for the quarter ending June 30. National chain Amedisys Inc. reported net income of $32.2 million on revenues of $422.3 million. That's down 8 percent from a profit of $35.1 million for the same period in 2009, although the Baton Rouge, La.-based company's revenues did rise from $377.9 million in that time period. The earnings were below expectations, CEO William Borne says in a release. Regional chain LHC Group Inc. reported net income of $16.3 million on revenues of $154.2 million for the quarter, up from a $14.2 million profit on $133.0 million in revenues from the year-ago quarter. But those figures just missed analysts' expectations for the Ruston, La.-based company, sending stock prices lower.
Home Health & Hospice Week
- Therapy:
Nip 6 Therapy Documentation Problems In The Bud
Improve your therapy documentation to guard against audits and comply with new rules. The PPS [...] - Compliance:
Use These 8 Tips To Craft Your Compliance Plan
Don't forget your board when planning your compliance educational efforts. While a corporate compliance plan [...] - Education:
Sign Up For PPS, Compliance, And Regulatory Training Before It's Too Late
Check out Eli audioconferences on the PPS 2011’s rule many provisions, whistleblower threats, and the [...] - Prospective Payment System:
Which New Diagnosis Codes Could Impact Your PPS Pay?
New potential case mix codes will offer increased specificity ICD-10 is coming fast, but until [...] - Diagnosis Coding:
Look For New Obesity Codes This Fall
Master these coding changes by Oct. 1. It's less than a few short months until [...] - Industry Notes:
Home Care Providers Win Leeway On Timely Filing
Count the 12-month deadline from your 'through' date. The one-year filing deadline for Medicare claims [...] - Industry Notes:
Medicare Wastes Millions On Capped Rental Repairs, OIG Says.
Getting claims for repair of DME capped rental items to go through could become a [...] - Industry Notes:
Expect Harsher Scrutiny From ZPICs.
• The public -- and Congress -- are taking notice of Program Safeguard Contractors' track [...] - Industry Notes:
Medicare Trust Fund Solvency Improves On Backs Of Providers.
All the money stripped out of home care providers' Medicare payments is ending up somewhere. [...] - Industry News:
Help Hospitals With New Readmission Measures
• You might be able to improve your relationship with referring hospitals if you can [...] - Industry News:
Use These DDE Steps For Claims Questions, RHHI Says
Wondering how to figure out why your claim paid less than you submitted for? After [...] - Industry News:
Banking Transition Delayed For Some Providers
If NHIC/NGS is your contractor, don't worry that you missed the banking transition deadline. Changes [...] - Industry News:
Get Your ADR Details Right When Responding
Look carefully on additional development request (ADR) letters to make sure you're sending your ADR [...] - Industry News:
HHA Chains Perform Below Expectations
The U.S. Senate and Securities and Exchange Commission's probes into home health therapy may have [...] - Industry News:
Gentiva-Odyssey Deal Proceeds Despite Therapy Probe
Gentiva Health Services Inc.'s acquisition of hospice chain Odyssey Healthcare Inc. appears to be moving [...]
