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Home Health

  • Keeping up the Pace

    Technology helps agencies comply with new regulations and improve their businesses
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  • New Challenges, New Opportunities

    Lead the way through the changing regulatory landscape with new technology developments
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  • Preventing Health Care Fraud

    Costs are directly impacted by Medicare fraud, and consumers are the ones who suffer
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  • A Foolproof Solution to Home Health’s Billion-Dollar Fraud Problem

    Proof of presence
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  • Four Pressures Shaping Post-Acute Care Technology

    Understanding advancements and what steps to take in IT planning
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  • To Flourish, Expand into Similar Markets

    Providers should think outside the box
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  • HME Industry Q&A with John G. Beard, Alacare Home Health & Hospice

    HC: How have Medicare’s reimbursement changes affected the Home Healthcare industry? JB: Since Medicare established the Home Heath Prospective Payment System (HHPPS) on October 1, 2000, Home Health Agencies (HHAs) have been subjected to annual adjustments based on amendments to the law along with regulatory changes. The National Episodic Reimbursement Rate is about the same amount today as it was in 2000 and the Case Mix Weight adjustments have become more restrictive in terms of addressing the needs of older, frailer Medicare patients who have an adequate Home Health Care Benefit to address all their homecare needs. Medicare is now seeking to address the problems that have resulted from a system that has incorrectly addressed the management of chronic conditions via an acute care, institutional…
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  • Too Many Hats

    Why the CEO should not serve as the compliance officer
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  • Pelton’s Home Health Care

    This company has survived by following the customers’ lead
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  • No About-Face on the Face-to-Face

    In a perplexing turn, CMS issued a proposed rule that requires a face-to-face exam by a physician who orders home health services under Medicaid. The proposal also requires a face-to-face encounter for DME
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  • A6243 Hydrogel Dressing

    The A6243 — hydrogel dressing, wound cover, sterile pad, each — has an overall denial percentage of 19.4.
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  • NCPA Lauds Letter Asking CMS to Call Off the MACs

    Reps. Tammy Baldwin, D-Wis., and Bart Stupak, D-Mich., asked that the agency “immediately instruct all Medicare Part B durable medical equipment Medicare Administrative Contractors (MAC) to cease
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