homehealthline.decisionhealth.comHome Health Line

Log InHelp Advanced Search ► Home News & Analysis Current Issue Issue Archive Benchmarks Regulatory Compliance Marketing Strategies Recruitment & Retention Tools Fraud & Abuse Hospice OASIS-C Quality Outcomes Private Duty Technology Resources Free Tools Poll Results FAQ Helpful Links Regulations & Guidelines Community Twitter Facebook Jobs Training & Events CMS revises IDR, alternative sanctions process By: DecisionHealth Staff The revisions include guidance on recommending and imposing alternative sanctions for home health agencies and hospice enforcement remedies. Top Senate advocates call for payment relief By: Greg Hambrick A letter from Sens. Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., and Susan Collins, R-Maine, asked CMS to consider the value home health care provides to the Medicare program and its beneficiaries.” Hospice settles $4.2 million false claims allegation By: DecisionHealth Staff A Texas hospice provider was accused of submitting false claims and knowingly retaining overpayments for hospice patients who were not terminally ill. See more headlines... Features Prepare for new SDoH measures aimed at post-acute/hospice quality reporting 05/09/2024 More... Update claims processing procedures for changes Oct. 1 05/09/2024 More... Increase internal audits to compete as outcomes improve 05/09/2024 More... Free Tool Establishing an Effective QAPI Program: 5 Steps for Success This tool may be used as a guide to assist agencies in building the framework for a strong, compliant QAPI program. Download... Job Board Training Opportunities Live Conference Home Health Quality Outcomes & Documentation Conference , 9/16/2024. Visit conference website for details. Live Conference 2024 Private Duty National Conference & Expo , 11/18/2024. Visit conference website for details. Live Conference 2025 Home Health Administrator’s Summit , 5/14/2025. Visit conference website for details. See more... Login User Name: Password: Remember me Forgot password Choose an account End User License Agreement Online Subscription Agreement: END USER LICENSE AGREEMENT IMPORTANT - READ CAREFULLY: BY COMPLETING THE ELECTRONIC ACCEPTANCE PROCESS AND CLICKING THE ACCEPTANCE BUTTON, YOU REPRESENT AND WARRANT THAT YOU: (i) ARE 18 YEARS OF AGE OR OLDER; (ii) ARE, OR ARE AUTHORIZED TO SIGN FOR AND BIND, THE CONTRACTING PARTY DEFINED BELOW AS "END USER"; AND (iii) HAVE READ, UNDERSTAND AND AGREE ON BEHALF OF END USER TO BE BOUND BY ALL OF THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF THIS ONLINE SUBSCRIPTION AGREEMENT. The following subscription agreement terms and conditions, consisting of the provisions below and the terms of the Privacy Policy and Web Site Terms and Conditions, each of which may be viewed at www.homehealthline.com, govern your subscription to and use of the DecisionHealth, LLC’s Web Site, content and service (collectively, the Service”). Any purchaser or user of any materials accessible via the Service is an End User for purposes of this Agreement. The Agreement is a legal and binding instrument entered into as of the date of electronic acceptance by End User (the "Effective Date"), by and between DecisionHealth, LLC ("DecisionHealth"), and End User, the individual or entity entering into this Agreement. DecisionHealth reserves the right to amend this Agreement from time to time without notice to End User. 1. End User Rights and Restrictions. a. Access to Service . The Service is a paid subscription service, and as such End User agrees that his/her access shall only be restricted to the term and level of subscription term for which DecisionHealth has received payment. During the Term of this Agreement, and upon End User’s payment of all applicable Subscription Fees, DecisionHealth will enable End User to access and utilize the Service as contemplated herein, and End User may access and use the Service pursuant to and in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement. b. Transfer of Content . End User shall be solely responsible for all content transferred by End User or any other party in connection with End User’s access and/or use of the Service. c. Prohibition on Reverse Engineering . End User may not reverse engineer, decompile or otherwise attempt to decipher any code in connection with the Service or any other aspect of DecisionHealth’s technology. No End User may utilize any automated computer program or activity to search, index, test, download, or grab information from the Service (including but not limited to web robots, spiders, and crawlers). DecisionHealth reserves the right to block or otherwise prevent the unauthorized use of such programs or activities. d. No Distribution . End User may not resell, distribute, or otherwise use the Service on a timeshare or service bureau basis. Neither the Service nor any content related to the Service may be copied, reproduced, framed, hyperlinked, republished, downloaded, uploaded, posted, transmitted or distributed in any way. You may not redistribute, reproduce, retransmit, disseminate, sell, publish, broadcast or circulate the information contained in the Service to any third party without the express written consent of DecisionHealth. It is strictly prohibited for any End User to download copies of the Service or any content related thereto for archival use. No other distribution of the Service or any content related thereto by any End User including, but not limited to, distribution via site licensing, on-line distribution, off-line downloading, tapes, discs, CD-ROM, optical media, hard copy formats, or print publication shall be permitted without the express written permission of an authorized officer of DecisionHealth. End User specifically agrees and understands that no rights of dissemination by any third party and no rights to sub-license to any third party are being granted to you under this Agreement. Except for the limited license specifically provided herein, this Agreement shall not transfer to you any right to, or interest in, the Service, or in any content included in the Service, or in any copyright or trademark pertaining thereto. You acknowledge that you have no claim to ownership of the Service or any content related thereto simply by reason of your use of or access to the Service. e. No Other Rights . No other rights are granted hereunder except as expressly set forth in this Agreement. 2. Copyrights and Trademarks. Except for the limited license rights granted in this Agreement, all right, title, and interest in and to the Service (including, but not limited to, any images, photographs, animations, video, audio, music, text, content. computer code or applets incorporated into the Service), any accompanying printed materials, and any copies of the Service are owned by DecisionHealth. All rights in and to the content that may be accessed through use of the Service is the property of the respective content owners and may be protected by applicable copyright or other intellectual property laws and treaties. This Agreement grants no rights to use such content. All rights not expressly granted are reserved by DecisionHealth and/or the owner(s) of the Service or other materials. U.S. Government Rights . This product includes CPT which is commercial technical data and/or computer data bases and/or commercial computer software and/or commercial computer software documentation, as applicable, which was developed exclusively at private expense by the American Medical Association, 515 North State Street, Chicago, Illinois, 60654. U.S. Government rights to use, modify, reproduce, release, perform, display, and or disclose these technical data and/or computer data bases and/or computer software and/or computer software documentation are subject to the limited rights restrictions of DFARS 252.227-7015(b)(2) (November 1995) and/or subject to the restrictions of DFARS 227.7202-1(a) (June 1995), as applicable, for U.S. Department of Defense procurements and the limited rights restrictions of FAR 52.227-14 (June 1987) and/or subject to...