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Melissa Cott

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Home Health Marketing: Patient Satisfaction is More Important than...

Your home health business plan must consider home health marketing. And home health marketing must consider patient satisfaction.  It all starts with ObamaCare and the Affordable Care Act

What does the Affordable Care Act have to do with it?

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care...

Posted by Melissa Cott on Dec 18, 2014

Home Health Care Marketing and the Affordable Care Act

Home Health Care Marketing - Your home health Business Plan must consider home health marketing. And home health marketing must consider patient satisfaction.

It all starts with ObamaCare.

Posted by Melissa Cott on Dec 3, 2014

Home Health Care Management: Proposed Changes to Minimum Wage

Home health care management will see minimum wage guidelines championed by the Obama administration regarding general minimum wage and overtime pay go into effect in January, 2015. This may be good news for home health workers, however, many agencies

Posted by Melissa Cott on Nov 5, 2014

Home Health Care Management: 2015 Medicare Reimbursement Changes

Last week CMS announced it’s final rule regarding reimbursement changes in the Medicare home health care management prospective payment system (HH PPS) for the upcoming 2015 year. These changes will ultimately reduce payments to home agencies by .3%, or roughly $60 million dollars.

Posted by Melissa Cott on Nov 4, 2014

Home Health Coding: The Real Reason for ICD 10-CM

The reason for the delays…

Home Health Coding - Like the rest of the planet, Home health EMRs and other home health consultants have implemented ICD-10 diagnostic codes. On January 16, 2009, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) published a regulation requiring the...

Posted by Melissa Cott on Oct 19, 2014

Home Health Software: How good is your 'Quality Assurance' Program?

Does your 'Performance Improvement' program REALLY work?

Medicare requires that “The group of professional personnel meets frequently to advise the agency on professional issues, to participate in the evaluation of the agency’s program...” Your home health software should have an...

Posted by Melissa Cott on Sep 29, 2014

Home Health Care Policies: Emergency Preparedness

Home Health Care Policies: Emergency Preparedness

In the event of a flood, fire, hurricane, tornado, blizzard, wind storm, and any other disaster that affects the delivery of scheduled home health care services, your agency should have the following emergency preparedness plan to...

Posted by Melissa Cott on Jun 11, 2014

Home Health Care Marketing Ideas: get Superior OASIS Outcomes

Home Health Care Marketing Ideas: Get Superior OASIS Outcomes

What would be the ideal 'opening dialogue' to have with a potential referral source like a physician or discharge planner?  It should go something like this...

"Hi Dr. Smith. You have a lot of choices of who to use for a Home...

Posted by Melissa Cott on Apr 15, 2014