Understanding Home Health Care
If your patient is going home and not in to extended care, she may benefit from home health care. The discharge planner will have explored this option with her and her family. Sometimes patients refuse home health care, often because they don't understand its purpose or role in their recovery.
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Three Strategies to Increase referrals to your Home Health Agency
In order to supercharge your marketing program, there are a handful of strategies that, if executed simultaneously, will skyrocket your referrals and give your agency a competitive advantage. Each strategy is dynamic on its own, and all of them have a common theme: They are designed to help you boost...
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New CMS guidelines for Therapy Services Provided by Home Health Agencies
Therapy Requirements Fact Sheet
While changes to Publication 100-02, Chapter 7, Home Health Services are pending, the following information related to therapy requirements contained in the Calendar Year 2011 Final Home Health Rule is being provided to assist HHAs and therapists with these requirements that are effective April 1, 2011....
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States Pushing Managed Long-Term Care For Elderly And Disabled Medicaid Patients
MADISON, Tenn. – Two years after Holly Hawthorne was severely brain damaged when her motorcycle was hit by a bus in India, she passed a huge milestone in January: She moved out of a nursing home here and into the house where she grew up.
Her mother, Diane Allison, credits Hawthorne’s...
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Home Health Administrators Training Seminars
With constant changes to regulatory requirements, home health agencies must take steps to be compliant while improving patient outcomes, increasing revenue, de- creasing costs and improving efficiency. Regulatory changes will make it more difficult for agencies to achieve their operational and financial goals. Learn how your agency can...
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PECOS Physician Enrollment Causes Serious Concerns for Home Health Agencies!
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On July 6, 2010 a regulation will go into effect that could impact your ability to continue service to as many as 20-40% of the patients that you serve. This includes current patients in need of continued care, as well as new patients referred...
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Health Care Fraud: Home Health Care Agency Owners on Wanted List
WASHINGTON – Health care fraud once was a faceless crime. Now it has a mug shot, even a smile.
Medicare and Medicaid scams cost taxpayers more than $60 billion a year, but bank holdups are more likely to get greater attention.
The government wants the public's help in trying to catch more...
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Five Benefits of Using Web-based Home Health Care Software
1. Improve agency collaboration
Effective web based software provides home health care organizations the ability to collaborate in real-time from anywhere at anytime. Clinical and administrative staff have access to real-time information regarding all agency activities and and can make decisions faster and more accurately. The complete availability of a patient’s medical...
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Home Health Patients may be affected by Medicaid Funding Problems Nationwide
There is "no simple answer" for Medicaid funding problems plaguing the states as they grapple with massive budget deficits, the Medicare chief said Thursday afternoon.
With a majority of the states asking the federal government to ease Medicaid requirements, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator Don Berwick said his...
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Home health care provider left ailing after financial woes
A longtime Hawaii home health care provider has cut staff by half and closed a Maui division due to Medicare cuts and internal accounting problems that led to delayed insurance reimbursements.
Carolyn Frutoz-de Harne, owner of Hawaii Healthcare Professionals Inc., said she downsized over the past six months to 55 employees...
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