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Cutting Home-Based Care Defies Fiscal and Political Logic

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Reasons Why You Can’t Afford to Miss OASIS Answers’ Workshops

Did you know that there have been several major changes to many of the official source documents that instruct home health coders how to assign ICD-9 codes just since September of 2009?  Do you know which documents these are, how … Continue reading

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Home Health and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation

 The Accountable Care Act is loaded with changes, many of them less than positive for Medicare home health providers. But one area of funding that could provide fertile ground for those who are forward thinking is the Centers for Medicare … Continue reading

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