While all 12,000 Medicare certified home health agencies are distracted by Face-to-Face documentation deficiencies, overzealous ZPIC and UPIC audits, ADR requests, and other Federal contractors threatening agency revenue, state surveyors have quietly joined the effort. Like a lioness identifying the weakest gazelle in the herd, they are targeting selected providers, dusting off an updated version […]
For at least two years, this publication — and its editor in his conference and webinar presentations — has been issuing a warning to Medicare-certified home healthcare agencies that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services would like to reduce the number of providers somewhere between 25% and 50%. At the end of 2013, the […]
by Liz Seegert Sometimes reality is not pretty, but it is still reality. “If home care companies do not change their mindset about how they do business in this post-ACA era, they will not be a viable part of the new health system,” warned Arnie Cisneros, PT, president of Home Health Strategic Management and a […]
by Liz Seegert In a lush desert resort setting, under cloudless skies and daily highs in the low 80s, attendees at last week’s inaugural THRIVE seminar, Healthcare in Transition, learned innovative strategic insights from industry-leading experts, enjoyed hands-on demonstrations of the latest home care technologies, and mingled up-close-and-personal with colleagues and keynote speakers during this […]
Briggs Healthcare® announces partnership with DeVero Briggs documentation to be incorporated into DeVero’s SaaS EHR Solution Briggs Healthcare® has announced a partnership with DeVero, Inc., the San Francisco-based Home Health and Hospice Cloud native software provider. Briggs will incorporate its documentation into DeVero’s SaaS EHR system. “This partnership with DeVero will offer Briggs documentation in […]
By Liz Seegert The top CMS official in charge of applying the Affordable Care Act to Medicare has resigned, effective May 16. Deputy CMS administrator Jonathan Blum was Medicare Director for five years, during which he focused on moving the $635 billion program away from its traditional fee-for-service payment model. [ Blum turned up in […]
On April 2, during the Annual Meeting of the Visiting Nurses Association of America, the Visiting Nurse Service of New York announced that it will implement the cloud-based Crescendo software solution from Delta Health Technologies. This is a significant departure from previous practice at VNSNY, the nation’s largest not-for-profit home care provider, which has always […]
By Tim Rowan We have spoken often in the past about the connection between avoidable rehospitalizations and patient medication non-compliance, and about how affordability is often the cause. Many clinicians and other caregivers have learned to coax the truth about whether their patients are having trouble filling prescriptions, as being short of funds is not […]
