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Volume XXXV, No. 10
MedPAC ideas: Fight fraud, freeze rates, order rebasing - and impose copays
The most recent Medicare Payment Advisory Commission report to Congress is a generous dose of bad news for the home health industry.

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Benchmark of the Week: Choose a CAHPS vendor now or risk payments, low patient-satisfaction scores
Agencies need to turn their attention to CMS's new patient-satisfaction survey or risk losing future inflation updates.

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Stolen laptops part of HHS list of breaches affecting more than 500 patients
Home health agencies take note: Lost and stolen laptops and portable electronic devices figure prominently in a recently released HHS list of patient-information breaches affecting more than 500 patients.

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Avoid big fines with a process for checking the OIG's exclusion list
A recent court case that cost one New Hampshire hospital more than $33,000 underscores the importance of home health agencies checking the Office of Inspector General's exclusion list before they hire staff.

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New webcam technology keeps tabs on patients, cuts agency costs
Imagine using technology that would allow you to monitor patients through webcams and motion sensors that detect when patients are in danger or have fallen, for instance.

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Software drives staffing improvements
For one agency, successfully implementing its software program meant re-interviewing its clinicians to determine computer skills and proficiency.

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Discharge Note:
CPO rates could be delayed until the end of March. Physicians' care plan oversight (CPO), certification and recertification rates for 2010 now could be delayed until March 31 or even longer.

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