Home Health & Hospice Week
Industry Note:
New HHA Chain-Hospital Joint Venture Focuses On Hospital Readmissions
Published on Fri Sep 20, 2013
Gentiva Health Services Inc. and Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center in North Carolina are partnering in a new joint venture. Wake Forest Baptist Health Care at Home will help patients of the hospital transition home safely and prevent readmissions, Wake Forest physician Pamela Duncan told the Greater Triad Business Journal.
Other Articles in this issue of
Home Health & Hospice Week
- Regulations:
Retool Patient Notice Procedures For New CCN
Say goodbye to HHABN by Dec. 9.
The more things change, the [...] - Education:
Use This Table To Help Train Staff On New CCN Form - Compliance:
Know When To Use The Replacement ABN
Your HHABN may still apply into 2014. Just because CMS has done away with the [...] - Labor Law:
DOL Finalizes Restriction On Companionship Exemption
Aides will see hours cut. Get ready to add a new layer of bureaucracy to [...] - Diagnosis Coding:
CMS Downplays Costs Of Upcoming ICD-10 Conversion
Plus: ICD-10 will allow you to submit code letters as either upper- or lowercase, CMS [...] - Industry Note:
Cut These Unnecessary Business Associate Agreements
Are you unknowingly making these common hospice BAA mistakes? You should bring your HIPAA compliance [...] - Industry Note:
Rules Change For Therapy ABN
If you think you know how to deal with ABNs related to Part B therapy [...] - Industry Note:
Nix This Claim Type Next Month
Don’t forget that you can no longer use type of bill 33x as of Oct. [...] - Industry Note:
Watch For Coding Conversion Details Next Spring
Wondering which ICD-10 codes will be linked to LCDs? The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid [...] - Industry Note:
Medicare Makes Changes To Extended Repayment Plans
Don’t be surprised to see changes if you need to request an Extended Repayment Schedule. [...] - Industry Note:
Joint Commission Offers Advice On Choosing Agencies
An accrediting body is offering help to potential home care patients in choosing a pro-vider. [...] - Industry Note:
Nonprofit Hospice Providers In Florida Merge
Hospice by the Sea and Hospice of Palm Beach County/Hospice of Broward County are merging, [...] - Industry Note:
New HHA Chain-Hospital Joint Venture Focuses On Hospital Readmissions
Gentiva Health Services Inc. and Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center in North Carolina are partnering [...] - Industry Note:
Another Health Dept. HHA To Close Its Doors
The Ford-Iroquois Public Health De-partment in Illinois will close its home health agency operated jointly [...] - Industry Note:
HH Fraudster Gets 4 years
A former Detroit HHA operator has received a four-year prison sentence after pleading guilty to [...]
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