The Visiting Nurse Associations of America invite you to take the opportunity to engage CMS officials in an in-person discussion on its proposed changes to both home health and hospice payments — including major cuts to home health payments, a home health value-based purchasing program, and a U-shaped payment model for hospice — at […]
Comprehensive Care for Joint Replacement Fact Sheet Hip and knee replacements are the most common inpatient surgery for Medicare beneficiaries and can require lengthy recovery and rehabilitation periods. In 2013, there were more than 400,000 inpatient primary procedures costing more than $7 billion for hospitalization alone. While some incentives exist for hospitals to avoid post-surgery […]
Relias Learning, the online education and Learning Management System company, is growing again with the announcement that the Cary, NC-basedcompany has acquired Academy Medical Systems, a leading provider of continuing education content for physical, occupational and respiratory therapists, as well as dietitians, diabetes educators and nurses. The more than 250 courses from AMS will […]
by Roger McManus Third in an 8-part series of Home Care Technology articles by McManus It is human nature. People who do business with you expect to receive good service from you. It is the norm. By and large, healthcare at home businesses which survive over time deliver on that expectation. This does not, […]
By Tim Rowan Supported by executives from Kaiser, LHC Group, and Liberty Healthcare, and a physician from Nashville’s largest integrated health network, Robert Simione declared that “change” is the key word with which we will be living for the foreseeable future and that “adapting to change” is the strategy and philosophy that will […]
Altoona, PA – June 26, 2015 – Delta Health Technologies® has determined that home health and hospice clinicians using the company’s clinical solutions complete their documentation in the patient’s home two times more often than the industry average. By facilitating in-home documentation completion, clinicians optimize coordinated care, reduce the number of documentation errors, and […]
Among the product announcements planned by exhibitors during next week’s NAHC Financial Managers meeting, TC Services USA will release an upgrade to its Work Opportunity Tax Credit software system. The upgrade will enable all of the firm’s home care customers to process virtually all of their applications through an online portal instead of via the […]
By Tim Rowan Once again, the U.S. Justice Department, in cooperation with the Department of Health and Human Services, the FBI, and the DEA, have removed from our midst a large number of criminals posing as healthcare professionals. On Sunday, Attorney General Loretta Lynch announced that 243 people had been arrested in 17 cities […]
By Tim Rowan Rarely have we received as much response to a news article as we have been getting since we were the first to report that Bosch Healthcare had abruptly abandoned the home telehealth market. Here we print without comment the remarks of ATA CEO Jonathan Linkous and many other respected industry participants […]
We received this statement from Linda Beckmeyer, Manager, Media and Public Relations in Robert Bosch LLC’s Farmington Hills, Michigan office: Bosch is currently realigning its business in the medical and healthcare sector, and is examining its options in this market. The company is currently analyzing future opportunities in this field. Its deliberations center on […]
