Home health providers are leveraging technology to decrease rehospitalizations and otherwise improve patient outcomes and worker safety, but they might have to overcome pushback from patients who are resistant to these devices, a new study reveals. It’s no secret that older Americans’ No. 1 preference to receive care is in their home, yet the majority […]
A Massachusetts home nursing agency owner was recently sentenced to 92 months in prison for fraudulently billing millions of dollars of services to Medicare and then laundering the proceeds. Michael Galatis, 63, of Natick, Mass. was sentenced by the District of Massachusetts to 92 months in prison, three years of supervised release, and ordered to […]
The vast majority of retirees 50 and older say their top preference for receiving long-term care is in their own home, driving demand for these services, according to a new Merrill Lynch retirement study conducted in partnership with Age Wave. Eighty-five percent say, if needed, they would prefer to receive extended care in their home, […]
As hospitals begin to feel some impact from readmission penalties, partnerships with home health agencies are being embraced with unprecedented enthusiasm, said leaders of home health, hospice and comprehensive post-acute health care services provider LHC Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: LHCG), during a conference call Thursday. Hospitals’ attention to partnerships with home health agencies is shifting in a “big […]
Cox Communications and Cleveland Clinic announced a strategic alliance Thursday to bring health care to the home through telehealth and other innovations. The venture into home health by the third-largest U.S. cable TV company — with about 6 million customers — is a natural one, Todd Smith, director of media relations, tells HHCN. “We’ve spent […]
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is alerting home health providers that their billing departments should be aware of new requirements to improve the enforcement of existing policies for certain payments. Change Request (CR) 9027 notifies home health agencies of new edits in Original Medicare systems to ensure Low Utilization Payment Adjustment (LUPA) […]
Last year’s Supreme Court ruling in a home health case is being cited by Gov. Bruce Rauner (R) as the legal justification for a move that would potentially weaken union organizing in Illinois. Rauner issued an executive order Monday that would exempt state workers who don’t want to join a union from paying fees that […]
An elaborate scheme that involved posing as a medical doctor is netting one Florida woman a nearly $8.5 million fine and 17-year jail sentence, federal officials recently announced. Alejandra Collazo, 43, of Pembroke Pines, Fla., defrauded the Medicare program while owning and operating Miami-based Vortex Medical Center & Management Services, Inc. Collazo was sentenced Feb. 5, […]
A home health copay, as seen in the Obama Administration’s 2016 budget proposal, would reduce Medicare spending by $830 million through 2025. The 2016 budget proposal, released Monday, contains home health copayments for Medicare beneficiaries along with cuts to post-acute care provider reimbursements for the next decade. The budget proposal includes a reduction each year […]
The owner and operator of a Miami home health care agency was sentenced Monday to 106 months in prison for his participation in a $30 million Medicare fraud scheme, according to FBI reports. Ramon Regueira, 66, of Miami, pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit health care fraud on Nov. 13, 2014, according […]
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