By Tim Rowan With additional copy from the CMS desk A years’-long frustratBion on the part of Medicare-certified healthcare at home providers has ended. It has always been the case that you are able to appeal a claim denial if you believe your Medicare Administrative Contractor incorrectly refused or adjusted your payment. Without incurring too […]
by Max Gottlieb It’s already September. Summer is almost over. October 1 is just over the horizon, followed quickly by Halloween, a far less frightening date. For most of the healthcare world, October 1 marks the switch from ICD-9 to ICD-10. However, as far as the actual people implementing the code are concerned, October […]
By Tim Rowan Without a doubt, Alzheimer’s disease is the most heart-breaking, agonizing health issue faced by seniors, their families, and their professional clinicians. Only the most patient and compassionate caregivers dare to take it on as a career. Most family members burn out after a single journey from diagnosis to death. In the healthcare […]
by Roger McManus Part 8 in an 8-part series about the new world of Reputation Management and Inverse Marketing You are in a service business. In healthcare at home, it is abundantly clear that the “product” you offer is people. People who represent your company and deliver highly-personalized services to people in need of assistance […]
By Tim Rowan ClearCare announced this week the release of a two-part program to help the private duty software vendor’s customers control Worker Compensation costs. The program integrates two complementary services. “WorkSafe” is a caregiver safety program built within the ClearCare application. The second is a newly formed insurance entity, CCO Insurance Solutions, LLC. […]
SAVANNAH — 8/4/2015 — The U.S. Attorney’s Office announced last month thatPediatric Services of America Healthcare, Pediatric Services of America, Inc., Pediatric Healthcare, Inc., Pediatric Home Nursing Services (collectively, “PSA”), and Portfolio Logic, LLC agreed to pay $6.88 million ($6,882,387) to resolve allegations that PSA, a provider of home nursing services to medically fragile children, knowingly failed to […]
I am sure you know Dr. Bob Fazzi, the founder and Executive Director of Fazzi Associates. He is a respected researcher whose findings often appear in our news stories. And he is a frequent keynote speaker at state and national conferences, always to packed rooms. This summer, he has revealed himself as also a passionate […]
