Home Health & Hospice Week
Keep These Safety Goals In Mind In 2012
Home Health & Hospice Week
- Reimbursement:
Copay Threat Grows Stronger, Thanks To MedPAC
HHA profit margin hits 19.4 percent, but steep drop predicted. The home care industry succeeded [...] - Hospice:
Change Your Hospice Discharge Coding This Summer
Revise one discharge code and learn another. Law- and policy-makers are determined to get to [...] - Know Your Facts:
HHA Stats Climb Higher Than 1990s Peaks
Medicare program had 11,600 agencies in latest data calculations. Record numbers of home health agencies, [...] - Therapy:
Watch Out For Stealth Home Care Episodes When Furnishing Part B Outpatient Therapy
The shoe may be on the other foot when you're the one furnishing Part B [...] - Industry Note:
HHH MAC Ramps Up Medical Review
Medicare contractor may ask to look at 40 claims in initial probe. You're not alone [...] - Industry Note:
New CMS Education Takes Aim At Docs Withholding Documentation
Having trouble getting your referring physicians to cough up medical documentation requested by Medicare contractors [...] - Industry Note:
MAC Sets 5010 Deadline
If you've been stalling on 5010 compliance, now's the time to get going on the [...] - Industry Note:
CMS Puts CHOW Changes In PI Manual
Medicare's revisions to change in ownership (CHOW) rules have officially hit the books. "Change in [...] - Industry Note:
Medicare Instructs Docs To Obtain NPIs
Physicians who are balking at obtaining a National Provider Identifier number are getting a talking-to [...] - Industry Note:
Keep These Safety Goals In Mind In 2012
Preventing falls is one of the measures stressed in this year's National Patient Safety Goals [...] - Industry Note:
Chain Pays Nearly $10M For 16 Nursefinders Locations
Moorestown, N.J.-based chain BAYADA Home Health Care has acquired 16 Nurse-finders Home Care offices from [...] - Industry Note:
Hospice Company Expands To 3rd State With SC Buy
Knoxville, Tenn.-based Caris Health-care has purchased Solaris Hospice with eight locations in South Carolina, Caris [...] - Industry Note:
HHA Owner, Employee Plead Guilty To Kickback Charges
A Miami home health agency owner and employee charged with Medicare fraud last fall have [...]
