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Comprehending The Home Health Care Improvement Act
Currently, one of the most frequent causes for delays in seniors accessing home health services is due to physician orders. This problem stems from the fact […]Read MoreBig Data Uses For Your Home Healthcare Agency
Most healthcare agencies can help track and manage population health as well as ensure an agency’s ability to deliver preventive health when it comes to big data. […]Read MoreIncreased Hospice Spending & It’s Dirty Little Secret
Medicare Hospice spending has seen an exponential increase over recent years, particularly in the for-profit sector. Hospice providers have also increased—primarily in the states of Texas […]Read MoreICD-10: New Features & Common Coding Errors
As the deadline for the ICD-10-CM and –PCS approaches on October 1, 2015, home health agencies (HHAs) covered by HIPAA must be up to speed. Enlisting […]Read MoreBeware The Rac Audit
How often have you or an HHA that you know, undergone a CMS Audit? These days it’s becoming more popular for the government to audit HHAs […]Read MoreHow To Avoid Payroll Headaches In Home Healthcare
Over the course of home health agency (HHA) industry growth, which has traditionally been a hands-on, in-person type of business, operations have been shifting to more […]Read MoreHow To Improve Your Agency’s Cash Flow
As people always say, “Cash is the lifeline of any business.” This statement holds especially true for the companies in the home health industry because without […]Read MoreHow Home Health Care Agencies Can Improve Transitional Patient Care
The importance of well-planned healthcare transitions between hospital discharges and home health care helps to avoid re-hospitalizations, especially for those elderly patients with multiple medical conditions. […]Read MoreShift Towards Value Based Care
In the current fee-for-service model of reimbursing providers for health care, physicians and organizations have incentives to ‘do’ more. The more tests you order, patients you […]Read MoreCMS Star Rating System: Are you a 5-Star Provider?
On July 16, 2015, CMS announced that it would adopt a quality of patient care star rating system. Similar to what is used on online retail […]Read More
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