Home Health & Hospice Week
Here's How HHA Profit Margins Have Stacked Up This Decade
Home Health & Hospice Week
- Reimbursement:
MedPAC To Ratchet Up Cut Recommendation To 7%
Increase comes as a surprise. While home health agencies are facing down the biggest change [...] - Finance:
Here's How HHA Profit Margins Have Stacked Up This Decade
Profits have seen some sharp peaks and valleys. With the 2010s about to close, it’s [...] - Know Your Facts:
MedPAC Predicts Higher Profit Margin Under PDGM
Agency number and episode volume fall — again. Take a look at the facts and [...] - Billing:
Ring In The New Year With Functioning Billing
Warning: HICNs will reject in a few weeks. Don’t get so caught up in PDGM [...] - HIPAA:
You Must Protect All Of These PHI Identifiers
If you mess up on what’s PHI and what isn’t, the price tag may be [...] - Industry Note:
MedPAC Readies Rate Freeze, Cap Reduction Recs
Cap reduction will risk access, expert warns. Hospices’ relatively high average profit margin of 12.6 [...] - Industry Note:
Prepare For RAP Hold On Jan. 1
Many things will change with PDGM’s implementation Jan. 1, but some things will stay the [...] - Industry Note:
OIG Beats Hospice Survey Drum Again
The HHS Office of Inspector General’s Semiannual Report to Congress is another chance for the [...] - Industry Note:
Where Is Rural Add-On Help?
A Nov. 21 blog post by CMS Administrator Seema Verma extolls the Centers for Medicare [...] - Industry Note:
Benchmark Yourself Against These Stats
The more information you have at your fingertips, the easier PDGM implementation and other challenges [...] - Industry Note:
5-State Hospice Chain Expands With Acquisition
Heart of Hospice based in Columbia, South Carolina, has purchased the operations of Heartstrings Hospice, [...] - Industry Note:
LHC-LifePoint Makes Arkansas Buy
LHC Group Inc. and LifePoint Health are further expanding their joint venture with an agreement [...] - Industry Note:
Another Texas Hospital Sells HH Unit
In Texas, the Gainesville Hospital District board has voted to sell North Texas Medical Center’s [...] - Industry Note:
State DOH Settles Fraud Allegations For $13.4M
State governments and hospice fraud settlements don’t usually go hand-in-hand, but a recent case is [...] - Industry Note:
HH Spending Grows
Total national healthcare spending in 2018 grew 4.6 percent to $3.6 trillion, according to new [...]
