• 1 Prospective Payment System: HHA Payment Rates Slashed 3% For 2012

• 2 Regulations: Face-To-Face Proposal Could Ease HHAs'Workload

• 3 Referrals: Improve Your Physician Relationships With SBAR Tool

• 4 Policies & Procedures: Use These Doc Communication Boosters

• 5 Fraud & Abuse: Chicago-Area HHA Owner Indicted On Fraud

• 6 Industry Note: Know Your FISS Status Codes To Speed Claims Payment

• 7 Industry Note: Get RAP Dates Right

• 8 Industry Note: Note These Changes To Hospice Cost Report Form

• 9 Industry Note: DME Bidding Doesn't Harm Benes, CMS Maintains

• 10 Industry Note: Why Copays Are Bad

• 11 Industry Note: Medicaid HHA Fraudsters Sentenced To Years In Jail

• 12 Industry Note: 2 IL Health Systems Merge

• 13 Industry Note: NH Agency Expands

• 14 Industry Note: Post-Acute Chain Buys New Mexico Agency

• 15 HIPAA: Your Employees' Facebook Posts Can Come Back To Haunt Them -- And You