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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
Home Health Care Management: 2015 Medicare Reimbursement Changes
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...
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...
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...
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...
How to Use ‘V-Code’ Home Health Care Coding Correctly on OASIS
The use of V-code home health care coding on OASIS is considered an “assignment of last resort.”
A V-code refers to a treatment protocol for a known disease, such as dialysis for kidney disease requiring, physical therapy for a fractured hip or medication monitoring for Coumadin or...
Home Health Care Billing Software: How to submit electronic claims
Home Health Care Billing Software: How to bill home health invoices…
Insurance companies (i.e. Medicare, Medicaid, Blue Cross/Blue Shield etc. and private payers) accept home health billing three (3) ways:
- on paper
- electronic submission by uploading an electronic file,
- ...
