Home Health & Hospice Week
Examine This Case Study For Cost-Cutting Tips
If you're looking to cut your spending in these trying financial times, you may want to take a page from one Milwaukee home health agency that's been there. Horizon Home Care & Hospice has cut $1.3 million from its annual budget this year, reports The (Milwaukee) Business Journal. Horizon, which has annual home care revenue of $12 to $13 million, used a number of budget- cutting strategies, according to CEO Mary Haynor. The cuts were necessitated by cuts in Medicare reimbursement rates and a rate freeze for Medicaid, Haynor told the Journal. How? Among other tactics, Horizon eliminate four manager positions through attrition; laid off one employee; offered part-time workers incen tives to work more hours; and "looked at" processes. The company did it by "holding nothing sacred," Haynor said. What's ahead: Continued rate-cutting will cause smaller companies to close or consolidate, Haynor predicted.
Home Health & Hospice Week
- Prospective Payment System:
2012 Cuts To Hit Therapy-Heavy HHAs The Hardest
Proposed cuts are even bigger than CMS says, industry sources maintain. How next year's proposed [...] - Diagnosis Coding:
Diagnosis Codes Slated For Elimination No Longer Predict Costs, CMS Says
Use of 401.9 more than doubled in last five years. The Centers for Medicare & [...] - Therapy:
20-Visit Threshold Sees Biggest Payment Decrease Under Case Mix Changes
The feds are aiming changes at scammers who pad their therapy visits. The only question [...] - Fraud & Abuse:
Outliers On Track For Decrease
Don't overlook the PPS rule's smaller provisions. The reimbursement cuts due to case mix creep [...] - Industry Note:
Tap Educational Resources From New HHH MAC
Get advice on billing issues ranging from logging onto DDE to avoiding duplicate file rejections. [...] - Industry Note:
Majority Of Power Wheelchair Claims Don't Meet Medic-are Requirements
Wheelchair suppliers may face even more red tape in furnishing items to Medicare beneficiaries, thanks [...] - Industry Note:
Don't Date Stamp Hospice Terminal Illness Certs Unless You Want Denials
Put away those date stamps for your hospice patients' terminal illness certification, or risk technical [...] - Industry Note:
Examine This Case Study For Cost-Cutting Tips
If you're looking to cut your spending in these trying financial times, you may want [...] - Industry Note:
Two California HHA Owners Found Guilty Of Fraud
A federal jury has found one home health agency owner in California guilty of Medicare [...] - Industry Note:
Regional Chain Buys Florida Home Health Agency
Regional chain CareSouth Health System Inc. is purchasing its third home health agency in Florida. [...] - Industry Note:
Multiple Regions See Hospice Inpatient Units Opening Their Doors
Hospice inpatient units continue to proliferate. Pikes Peak Hospice & Palliative Care in Colorado Springs, [...]
