Inappropriate Home Health Referrals and Billing Lead to Convictions
At Ankota, we believe that home care should play a vital and increasing role in health care reform. Keeping elderly and fragile patients out of the hospital and in their homes can greatly reduce...
A Silver Lining for HME Providers per Dave Cormack, Brightree Chief
Brightree is a leading provider of software for DME (Durable Medical Equipment) Providers. Their software manages orders, billing, inventory management, and fulfillment for retail and home delivery...
CMS Penalties for Avoidable Readmissions Have Started
The entire healthcare world has known for a long time that yesterday was coming: the day that CMS started penalizing hospitals for what are called avoidable readmissions. That's right--THAT just...
Will You Survive All The Home Health Changes?
As readers of Ankota's blog will attest, we're not above borrowing a good article from someone else when we see it. We'll share it with the world if we like it. This post is an refreshing reminder...
Care Coordination and Checklists are How We Heal Health Care
One of the people I've come to greatly respect is Atul Gawande. He's a doctor and an author and we've featured him numerous times on the Ankota blog including as the author of Ankota's book of the...
If Home Care Gets Involved in Bundled Payments Does it Work?
Our friends at Boyd & Nicholas, "The Cost Report People" provide a weekly newsletter that is a nice overview of issues affecting home care. This week they included a nice summary of a story in...
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