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  • Why Home Health Care Is a Top Target for FLSA Prosecutions

    Each year, thousands of business owners across the United States face charges of wage theft, mismanaging overtime and blundering on employee classification. While the rising tide of FLSA lawsuits spans across the business world, employers should be aware that some industries have a particular target on their backs when it comes to these costly disputes with employees. The health care industry ranks in the top five for FLSA wage and hour prosecutions by the Department of Labor and home health care providers are among the worst hit. Why is this? Daniel Abrahams of Brown Rudnick LLP says that, contrary to popular opinion, these lawsuits don’t just befall unscrupulous employers: “A dispute with the DOL or a group of employees doesn’t mean you’re a bad employer….
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  • Keys to Growth Strategies

    Diversification
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  • The Convergence of Change in Post-Acute Care

    External factors that fundamentally impact this sector of health care
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  • Home Health Medicare Pre-Claim Review: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

    The Pre-Claim Review Demonstration, a recent Medicare home health pilot program from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), is one of many new requirements that home health agencies across the country could have to adopt depending on the outcome of recent actions being taken by industry organizations, stakeholders and Congress to extend the delay or withdraw it altogether. Created to enforce a more proactive oversight strategy on Medicare home health coverage in an effort to reduce fraud and abuse, the pre-claim review’s pilot phase was to begin with implementation in Illinois, Florida and Texas in 2016, then Michigan and Massachusetts in 2017—all states with soaring fraud, abuse and over-spending rates. But since the Illinois implementation in August, the National Association for Home Care…
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  • Leveraging Technology to Achieve Success

    Two home health agencies share how they’ve incorporated technology in their day-to-day operations
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  • Continuing Education and Employee Training

    For the benefit of everyone, don’t leave these items off your management checklist
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  • Pre-Claim Review Demonstration Hits 5 States Next Month

    Payment Systems
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  • Partnering with Hospitals to Reduce Readmission Rates

    This primer will help to prepare your home health care agency for a new venture
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  • Improving Employee Relationships

    One way is to understand who caregivers are and how they prefer to be appreciated by their employers
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  • There’s No Place Like Home

    One caregiver’s perspective of keeping her grandmother in her safe place
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  • The Future of Home Health

    Telehealth
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  • Strategic Technology Determines Home Health Care Success

    Technology
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