Across the healthcare spectrum, there is a growing consensus that telehealth is a vital element of 21st century healthcare. Those who agree are invited to sign a petition so that Medicare will get the message.
Before the nation’s home care CFOs left Boston last week, NAHC Financial Manager meeting chair Bill Dombi was able to get the Calendar Year 2010 Medicare pay rate proposal hot off the presses and explain it to an audience most concerned about the news. Dombi’s analysis adds to our repeat of the information published July 30 in the Federal Register.
VW is a regular HCTR feature that welcomes press releases and vendor announcements regarding new product introductions, personnel moves, mergers and acquisitions and other news items of interest to home care and hospice management and technology staff. This week, VW has come across three completely unrelated items about a service provider’s grand gesture, a new entry into the mobile technology market and a step to help patients feel more secure about having their health information online.
One of the legal points revealed by NAHC attorney Denise Bonn last week was the requirement that Recovery Audit Contractors prepare a region with training about their planned activities before they can conduct audits in the region. Two brief stories that have come to our attention here at RAC Assistance for Home Care are worth […]
Benjamin Franklin did not have Recovery Audit Contractors in mind but he was certainly prescient when he proposed his famed 1:16 effectiveness ratio: “An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.” Wise home care and hospice owners and other executives will have already begun a policy review and clinician training effort. Improving documentation […]
Shades of Y2k, the end of the world that did not live up to doomsayers’ expectations! August 1, 2009 came and went and no home care or hospice providers were put out of business by a Recovery Audit Contractor (RAC). There is time to take a breath and replace rumor-based fear with facts and that […]
