Home Health & Hospice Week
If you're wondering how to get your
If you're wondering how to get your patients to adhere to their medication regimens and improve their outcomes, you may want to consider an idea from a project in Philadelphia. One experimental program there is offering patients taking warfarin an opportunity to win $10 or $100 each day that they take the drug, reports The New York Times. Health insurer Aetna helped fund the program, and also pays physicians bonuses for prescribing preventive medications like beta blockers and statins, the newspaper says. "It's better to spend money on medication adherence for patients, rather than having them boomerang in and out of the hospital," Valerie Fleishman, executive director of the New England Healthcare Institute, a research organization, told the Times. About one-tenth of hospital admissions and one-quarter of nursing home admissions result from incorrect adherence to medication, Fleishman said. "Financial incentives are a critical piece of the solution," she told the paper. Read the entire article online at www.nytimes.com/2010/06/14/health/14meds.html.
Home Health & Hospice Week
- Compliance:
Focus On Your Compliance Plan Now Or Pay Later
Enhanced fraud-fighting atmosphere makes your plan more important than ever. If the feds show up [...] - Strategy:
Avoid These Common Compliance Plan Mistakes
Letting a plan collect dust on the shelf is a big no-no. Many home care [...] - Regulations:
Tap These Resources To Master Your Compliance Plan
Don't stop with the OIG guidance. Crafting or updating your organization's compliance plan can seem [...] - Fraud & Abuse:
GAO Wants RACs To Focus On Home Care Claims
CMS should toughen up procedures to fight improper payments. You may feel like your life [...] - Diagnosis Coding:
Write The 2013 ICD-10 Start Date In Pen
The feds also want to freeze ICD-9 coding after next year. If you were hoping [...] - Industry Notes:
Hospital Readmissions Grab The Spotlight
Home care could play a vital role in preventing unnecessary health spending. Your hard work [...] - Industry Notes:
Medical reviewers may start taking a
Medical reviewers may start taking a harder look at ENT claims for nursing home patients, [...] - Industry Notes:
If you're wondering how to get your
If you're wondering how to get your patients to adhere to their medication regimens and [...] - Industry Notes:
When Recovery Audit Contractor
When Recovery Audit Contractor reviews hit home health agencies and hospices, they'll know it thanks [...] - Industry Notes:
Having trouble registering
Having trouble registering in the new electronic provider statistical and reimbursement (PS&R) system? Home Health [...] - Industry Notes:
Don't be surprised if your referring
Don't be surprised if your referring physicians are extra grumpy. Congress failed to avert the [...] - Industry Notes:
A new home health prospective payment
A new home health prospective payment system pricer for 2010 is available for download, CMS [...] - Industry Notes:
Don't expect a new CMS Administrator
Don't expect a new CMS Administrator any time soon. Confirmation of President Obama's nominee, Dr. [...] - Industry Notes:
If you're accredited by the Joint Commission,
If you're accredited by the Joint Commission, you'll want to be especially careful to pay [...] - Industry Notes:
A home health nurse faces up to 10
A home health nurse faces up to 10 years in a prison and a $250,000 [...]
