Home Health & Hospice Week
Use This Sample Risk Analysis Plan To Ensure EHR Compliance
Home Health & Hospice Week
- HHAs:
Alternative Sanctions: What 'Temporary Management' Really Means
Plus: Should you fear directed in-service training, plans of correction? Thanks to the Home Health [...] - Good News:
Some ICD-9 Logic Transfers To ICD-10
Learn step-by-step instructions to get into the swing of new diagnosis coding. As you’re preparing [...] - ICD-10:
How To Balance ICD-9 Upkeep With ICD-10 Preparation
Improved documentation should ease your workload. With the flurry of activity over transitioning to ICD-10, [...] - HIPAA Compliance:
Use This Sample Risk Analysis Plan To Ensure EHR Compliance
How to stay in the good graces of HIPAA compliance auditors. Nip your HIPAA compliance [...] - Education:
Prepare Yourself For Survey Sanctions, HIPAA Penalties
Bone up on all the new compliance dangers. From new sanctions for noncompliant home health [...] - Industry Note:
Are You Considering These Key Areas When Assessing Fall Risks?
Medications, poor nutrition are risk factors. Falls are the leading cause of fatal injury among [...] - Industry Note:
Medicare Payments Advisory Board Could Soon Be No More
You may not need to worry about the Medicare Payments Advisory Board any longer, because [...] - Industry Note:
Can You Still Send Unencrypted Emails Under HIPAA Rule?
Don’t be confused by whether changes to the HIPAA privacy rule bars sending unencrypted emails, [...] - Industry Note:
Home Care Patient Recruiters Plead Guilty To $20-Million Fraud Scheme
Two home health agency patient recruiters pled guilty to a $20-million fraud scheme in a [...] - Industry Note:
CMS Kicks Off 'Bundled Payments' Initiative
CMS has officially begun the Bundled Payments for Care Improvement initiative, which will test how [...] - Industry Note:
Why Louisiana Hospices Are Breathing A Sigh Of Relief
Louisiana hospice providers exhaled a big sigh of relief, as Gov. Bobby Jindal threw out [...] - Industry Note:
HHA Owner Gets 8-Year Sentence For Medicaid Fraud, Grand Theft
An HHA owner was sentenced to eight years in prison for Medicaid fraud totaling more [...] - Industry Note:
Home Health Workers Union President Convicted Of Embezzlement
A former home care union president was convicted of embezzlement while he headed the Southern [...] - Industry Note:
Short Hospice Stays A Rising Trend, Not Good For Anyone
Short hospice stays aren’t very useful to patients or payers, but they are a growing [...]
