Home Health & Hospice Week
Studies & Surveys:
OIG SAYS HOME CARE QUALITY OK
Published on Mon Jan 09, 2006
Home health agencies haven't been providing inadequate services under the prospective payment system. So says an HHS Office of Inspector General report that analyzes rehospitalizations and emergency room visits for home health patients in the first three years of PPS.
Note: For more information, see next week's Eli's Home Care Week.
Other Articles in this issue of
Home Health & Hospice Week
- Budget:
PRESIDENT WANTS TO CUT HOME CARE BUDGET
HHAs, hospices face 2007 battle in wake of 2006 defeat.
The home care industry is mobilizing [...] - Budget:
HME INDUSTRY PREPARES BUDGET BATTLE PLAN
President's 2007 budget brings more bad news for home care.
The 2006 budget reconciliation bill passed [...] - Prospective Payment System:
NEW HHA RATES GO INTO EFFECT
Agencies protest lack of information.
If all goes as planned, you should start receiving new Medicare [...] - Wheelchairs:
SPEED CLAIMS PROCESSING WITH K CODES FOR ADJUSTABLE CUSHIONS
Payment rates for these new codes not yet set.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services [...] - Lawsuit:
DON'T BANK ON INTERMEDIARY GUIDANCE
Appeals court lets RHHI go back on approval of cost report methodology.
If you rely on [...] - Hospice:
WATCH OUT FOR HOSPICE SURVEY RED FLAG
Sidestep this new admission landmine. You could find yourself in hot water with surveyors if [...] - Studies & Surveys:
OIG SAYS HOME CARE QUALITY OK
Home health agencies haven't been providing inadequate services under the prospective payment system. So says [...] - Industry Notes:
OREGON HHA IN HOT SEAT AFTER PATIENT DATA THEFT
Agency faces lawsuit, investigations.
If you're wondering how bad a patient information security breach might get, [...]
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