Sue Brown is a home care agency administrator known for her relentless pursuit of excellence through technology and training. A former president of the Colorado Association for Home Care, and still a sometime lobbyist, her agency, Home Care of the Grand Valley in Grand Junction, was the first to receive a Medicaid payment for […]
Try this. Set up a Google News Alert for the keywords “Security Breach” and count the number of incidents that reach your email inbox every day. Had you done this on May 15, you would have read about 400 breaches by now. Protecting patient health information is serious business; failing to fulfill HIPAA obligations […]
MINNEAPOLIS, MN – Medtronic, Inc. (NYSE: MDT) announced Monday the closing of the acquisition of Cardiocom, a privately held developer and provider of integrated telehealth and patient services for the management of chronic diseases, in an all cash transaction valued at $200 million. Medtronic expects the net impact from this transaction to be neutral […]
Analysis by Editor Tim Rowan
The Face-to-Face documentation rule is not achieving its intended goal, restraining Medicare fraud. It is doing nothing other than increasing the number of payment denials to honest agencies that cannot get their referring physicians to find the right wording. This is the message delivered in no uncertain terms this week to two PGBA educators, who may have known what kind of a lion’s den they were walking into but came prepared with no satisfying answers.
Allscripts Healthcare Solutions, Inc. (NASDAQ: MDRX) has announced financial results for the three and six months ended June 30, 2013. A review of second quarter highlights is provided in this article; along with an overview provided by Paul M. Black, President and Chief Executive Officer of Allscripts, of milestones achieved; and a statement of the […]
New Report Challenges Basic Assumptions About Reforming Payment in Health Care NEWTOWN, Conn., Aug. 7, 2013 /PRNewswire/ — A new report from the Health Care Incentives Improvement Institute, Inc. (HCI3®), developed with support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF), questions conventional wisdom about how to improve quality and affordability of health care in the United States. The […]
by Tim Rowan, editor Fulfilling its mission to educate home healthcare providers, Palmetto Government Benefits Administrators sent two experts this week to a conference sponsored by the New Mexico Association for Home & Hospice Care. Agency administrators came prepared with questions and it appeared as though educators Marilyn Jeske and Charles Canaan were expecting them…not […]
If you are not planning to attend NAHC’s 2013 Annual Meeting — Halloween through November 3 — and if you are within reach of the Foxwoods Resort Casino in Connecticut, you may want to know about a private duty home care event set for November 3-5. The New England Home Healthcare Summit is being […]
Winning official certification for a home health EHR product involves jumping through hundreds of hoops. What is more, at the end there is no ARRA stimulus money to offer to customers as there is for meaningful use of hospital and physician EHRs. For these two reasons, only one home health vendor has previously sought […]
Vendor News 1: Sprint and SoftBank announced on July 10 that the companies have closed the transaction in which SoftBank has acquired an approximate 78 percent interest in Sprint. One day earlier, Sprint had completed its acquisition of Clearwire. Headquartered in Japan, SoftBank operates Internet and communications-related businesses in Japan and globally.A company press release […]
