Overland Park, KS, August 9, 2016– Netsmart has announced that Dawn Iddings has joined the company as senior vice president and general manager of Netsmart Homecare™. Iddings will manage the continued development of Netsmart’s market-leading home care, hospice, palliative care and private duty solution, including integration into the Netsmart CareFabric® suite of clinical and business […]
By Tim Rowan, Editor & Publisher of Home Care Technology Report Join Beth Carpenter, Sharon Harder and Nancy Houser from home health care consultants Beth Carpenter and Associates, as they explore and instruct through a 4-part webinar series on the Medicare Fee for Service Pre-Claim Review Process. This Pre-Claim Review Process is sure to migrate […]
by Michelle Boasten To avoid 30-day readmission penalties and prepare for new payment systems that emphasize value-based care, Cedars-Sinai hospital in Los Angeles offered development and financial support to 11 startup innovators. HomeHero was one of the participants in the hospital’s Techstars Healthcare Accelerator, designed to address comprehensive regulatory changes set in place by the […]
By Tim Rowan, Editor & Publisher of Home Care Technology Report Following her throat cancer diagnosis, the patient had to have a tracheotomy surgically implanted, rendering her nonverbal. Thanks to a two-way video system mounted on a small, remote-controlled robot, she is able to communicate with her caregivers from Acacia Living in Santa Barbara, California. This […]
By Tim Rowan, Editor & Publisher, Home Care Technology Report Looking at Medicare claims data for calendar years 2014 and 2015, the Office of the Inspector General has concluded that more than $10 billion of the $18.4 billion paid in CY2015 for healthcare services to Medicare beneficiaries in their homes was “improper.” The use of […]
By the Visiting Nurse Associations of America In response to the June [2016] report by the HHS Office of Inspector General, the Visiting Nurse Associations of America issued the following statement. VNAA appreciates the Office of Inspector General’s identification of characteristics of potentially fraudulent home health claims. The Health and Human Services’ Office of Inspector […]
