Home Health Management: Study Finds Hospice Chains Growing Quickly
Home Health Management- Recently, a new study has found that hospices are becoming an increasingly profitable business model. In fact, hospices are transforming into a large industry filled with multi-chain and multi-state networks. A new study conducted recently has confirmed that...
Home Health Care Policies: Medicare Chief Resigns
Home Health Care Policies- Medicare’s top administrator, Marilyn Tavenner, unexpectedly stepped down from her position on Friday. This comes amid turmoil regarding new legislation and requirements for health insurance, as well as caregiving employees
Home Health Care Policies: Report on the “Rising Cost of Living Longer”
Home Health Care Policies- The Kaiser Family Foundation has published some highly informative reports regarding health care spending lately. This week KFF released a report outlining the cost of living longer and an analysis of year-by-year spending for elderly patients. More...
Home Health Care Policies: Overtime Protections Overturned by Federal Court
Home Health Care Policies- Today, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia struck down proposed overtime protection rules for home care employees in a final ruling.
Home Health Care Policies: New Info for Hospice CAHPS Exemptions
Home Health Care Policies - Recently, CMS has issued additional information for hospices wishing to gain an exemption to participation in the hospice CAHPS program. A form is available for agency’s wishing to apply for exemption due to size of hospice program. The application is titled
Get Training for ICD-10-CM for Home Health Coding
Why are we switching to ICD-10-CM for Home Health Coding?
There have been delays…
On January 16, 2009, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) published a regulation requiring the replacement of ICD-9 with ICD-10 as of October 1, 2013. In February 2012, HHS announced it was...
Home Health Management: Study Finds Home Care Accountability Lacking
An Home Health Management investigation recently conducted by Kaiser Health News suggests that despite the effectiveness of home care, there is still a large number of untrained staff members throughout the nation remain undertrained or lack the appropriate scrutiny of their...
Home Health Management: Research Finds Hospice Effective and Cheaper
Home Health Management- The Journal of the American Medical Association has recently published a report comparing the use of hospice services vs. non-hospice patients. The hospice movement has become increasingly popular for patients who wish to remain in a homelike setting, rather...
