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 […]
The Department of Health and Human Services should never have allowed the Administrative Law Judge system to become overwhelmed by hundreds of thousands of appeals. They asked contractors to find more excuses to deny Medicare payments; they knew the number of appeals would climb; they should have been prepared. Home healthcare providers have no alternative but prevention. Better clinical documentation = fewer denials = reduced reason to appeal.
It is official. The home health software vendor named “Best in KLAS” for 2013 is Thornberry Ltd. of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, with its NDoc product. The 20-year old home health and hospice vendor was awarded a score of 91.5 by KLAS, beating out a field that included much larger vendors. The rankings were revealed this week […]
REDMOND, Washington — January 31, 2014 — Physio-Control, Inc., the world leader in emergency medical response technologies, today announced it has entered into a merger agreement with Duluth, Minnesota-based Sansio – a leading provider of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solutions for the Emergency Medical Services (EMS) and home healthcare markets.
When a new Federal law forced retirement plan managers to reveal all hidden fees last July, many employers were shocked to see how much of their employee’s retirement money was being siphoned away. Home care agency owners who have been focused on other, more pressing financial issues might be pleased to hear about the low-cost […]
by Liz Seegert Patience, and plenty of it, for 30 months or more. That’s what will be needed by any home care agency anticipating Administrative Law Judge Hearings for Medicare Claim and Entitlement Appeals. The Office of Medicare Hearings and Appeals has suspended the assignment of most new requests for Administrative Law Judge hearings for […]
Gentiva Home Health announced this week that it completed the rollout of a new clinical point-of-care system between September and November of last year. We spoke with Chief Clinical Officer Charlotte Weaver, RN, to learn how the 40-state organization managed to pull it off in only 10 weeks. Her answer reads like a “how-to” manual for software implementations, even if your agency is not one of the nation’s largest.
by Liz Seegert CMS has revised portions of the relevant program manuals used by Medicare contractors as part of a settlement agreement in the case of Jimmo v. Sebelius, a class action lawsuit brought by individual Medicare beneficiaries and national organizations. Change Request (CR) 8458 updates portions of the Medicare Benefit Policy Manual to […]
