Judge Christina Reiss To Halt Fraudulent Use Of Medicare Statute

The Medicare Medicaid certified health provider (registered nurse, physical therapist, occupational therapist, speech therapist) will no longer be able to deny you service because of "no documented progress, plateaued,  or a chronic progressive disease process resulting in maintenance".  This frequently verbalized improvement standard is a mis-representation of existing Medicare Medicaid statute, fraudulent.

The improvement standard announced the provision of health services to individuals who were not getting better was not in line with the true intention of the Medicare Medicaid program.  This class action suit announces the need for additonal health services does not depend on the individuals ability to demonstrate progress as defined through recorded participation in implemented models of therapeutic design.

In January 2011 the Center For Medicare Advocacy and Co-Counsel from Vermont Legal Aid filed a class action lawsuit against Kathleen Sebelius Secretary of DHHS (Department of Health and Human Services).   The class action suit alleged administration facilitated the denial of care through use of an improvement standard that requires progression to assure access to needed health services.

This inappropriate practise prevented individuals with chronic progressive disease processes to benefit from health services that could slow or stall the loss of fitness and function.  Timely access to these much needed services could prevent hospitalizations and save the Medicare Medicaid programs money. 

Federal Chief Judge Christina Reiss Of The United States District Court In Vermont will deliver the ruling.  An important piece of the proposed settlement is the addition of a printed mandate to the Medicare Policy Manual that coverage of therapies does not turn on the presence or absence of a beneficiary's potential for improvement from therapy, but rather on the beneficiary's need for skilled care. 

Home Care Path www.homecarepath.com expects the (CMS) Centers for Medicare and Medicaid to develop and conduct educational sessions to assist Medicare Medicaid certified providers to comprehend the change as it relates to the delivery of care in their direct practise.

Home Care Path is a leading senior care provider serving south central Wisconsin.  Services include:
-in home staffing with help for ADL's and IADL's
-inpatient advocacy for safe successful hospital stays
-crisis intervention with transitional counseling
-temporary help with a scheduled day surgery
-down sizing home contents when stuff matters
-communicate face to face on the computer across long distances
-packing and shipping with holiday gift giving season
Simply call 608-432-4286 to schedule an in home interview.  2012 rates are 20.00 per hour.  Email lkutzke@homecarepath.onmicrosoft.com  We accept long term care insurance.  We can be there when you are working.  Services are tax deductible.  Valuing home and human life.

Investigating The Out Break Of Fungal Meningitis

Meningitis is an inflammation of the membranes that cover the brain and spinal cord.  The initial symptoms are dizziness, nausea, elevated body temperature, and head pain. 

The Centers For Disease Control (CDC) is currently investigating an out break of fungal meningitis.  Individuals became infected with fungal meningitis through medication (injectable steroids) injected in to the body to relieve pain. 

Approximately fifty vials of  steroid medication has tested positive for fungus.  Two fungus types have been connected to infected patients.  The Aspergillus a fungus more commonly found.  And Exserohilum a black mold fungus.  This leaves the CDC to question the accuracy of the diagnostic testing. 

The CDC has encouraged providers to treat a patient who is known to have received an effected steroid injection with the antifungal medications even if the person's diagnostic test shows no fungal significance.  A precautionary practice.

The CDC identified the New England Compounding Center as the source of the steroid contaminated with fungus.  In cooperation with a Food and Drug Administration (FDA) investigation the New England Compounding Center coordinated a voluntary nation wide recall of all products from the Framingham Massachusetts Distribution Center.

Health planners are reviewing regulations that govern activity of a compounding pharmacy verses larger scale drug manufacturing.  Specifically has the regulatory capacity at the state level evolved to attend to the market changes. 

Home Care Path encourages seniors and their family to watch this very important investigation as it unfolds. 

Home Care Path www.homecarepath.com is a leading senior care provider serving south central Wisconsin.  Services include:
-in home staffing with help for ADL's and IADL's
-inpatient advocacy for safe succesful hospital stays
-crisis intervention and transitional counseling
-temporary help with a scheduled day surgery
-down sizing home contents when stuff matters
-packing and shipping with holiday gift giving season
-communicate face to face on the computer across long distances
Simply call 608-432-4286 to schedule an in home interview.  2012 rates are 20.00 per hour.  Email lkutzke@homecarepath.onmicrosoft.com  We accept log term care insurance.  We can be there when you are working.  Services are tax deductible.  Valuing home and human life. 

Tax Loss Harvesting

Tax Loss Harvesting is a strategy to manage individual investor loss with a market down turn. When a senior sells shares of a stock or mutual fund for less than was originally paid a capital loss is created. This capital loss calculation can then be subtracted from any capital gain generated from selling shares of a stock or mutual fund for more than the original purchase price.  The loss has now offset the gain and reduced the investors tax burden. 

When a net capital loss is greater than your capital gain the balance (up to 3 thousand dollars per year) can be subtracted from your taxable income.  Remaining capital loss beyond the 3 thousand dollar limit can be brought forward and subtracted from the following year. 

The shares of stock or mutual fund must have been owned for greater than 30 days and after a sale could not be re- bought within 30 days to maintain eligibility.  Individuals can monitor their investments throughout the year for drops in value.  Please be sure and consult with your independent investment advisor when managing your funds. 

Home Care Path www.homecarepath.com is a leading senior care provider serving south central Wisconsin.  Services include:
-in home staffing with help for ADL's and IADL's
-inpatient advocacy for safe successful hospital stays
-crisis intervention and transitional counseling
-temporary help with a scheduled day surgery
-packing and shipping with holiday gift giving season
-down sizing home contents when stuff matters
-communicate face to face on the computer across long distances
Simply call 608-432-4286 to schedule an in home interview.  2012 rates are 20.00 per hour.  Email lkutzke@homecarepath.onmicorsoft.com  We accept long term care insurance.  We can be there when you are working.  Services are tax deductible.  Valuing home and human life.

Facebook Passes One Billion Users

Facebook is one of the most powerful social communication enterprises in the world.  Since the  (IPO) Initial Public Offering in May 2012 Home Care Path www.homecarepath.com has predicted great things for facebook.  The founder Mark Zuckerberg has cleverly facilitated a level of user autonomy that has resulted in huge participation.

One Billion people from an American numeration would be a thousand millions.  Clearly this is a global exchange of information.  That is a big part of facebooks charm.  Users can experience global change manifesting in ever day life facilitating adequate time for the human mind to process the information.  Comprehension and understanding are often the result of this new way of receiving information about change in our world.

Facebook is helping one billion family's stay connected with the people they care most about.  Message and photo sharing occurs in real time.  A baby is born, the family is all notified in real time.  Information presented immediately with both words and pictures can communicate more of the actual experience.   A senior in a nursing home maintains that important connection to family and friends. Sharing captures the receivers sense of being there.

Most progressive employers have encouraged staff to log on and tune in rather than tune out.  There is no need for special arrangements to check on an ill family member at home, simply communicate from your work station with facebook. 

Employees can add to the business owners online presence.  Interaction can enhance the company's online content resulting in more mass for the search engine to identify.  Content drives expansion which facilitates a greater community access. 

Home Care Path would like to take this opportunity to thank facebook for the wonderful service being provided. 

Home Care Path www.homecarepath.com is a leading senior care provider serving south central Wisconsin.  Services include:
-in home staffing with help for ADL's and IADL's
-inpatient advocacy for safe successful hospitals stays
-crisis intervention with transitional counseling
-temporary help with a scheduled day surgery
-packing and shipping with gift giving season
-down sizing home contents when stuff matters
-fun with facebook the social communication tool
Simply call 608-432-4286 to schedule an in home interview.  2012 rates are 20.00 per hour.  Email lkutzke@homecarepath.onmicrosoft.com  We accept long term care insurance.  We can be there when you are working. Services are tax deductible.  Valuing home and human life.

echoMetrix EchoSoft ultra sound set for real economic activity

echoMetrix has received FDA approval for Echo Soft Ultra Sound to do musculoskeletal assessments which will lead to real economic activity.   echoMetrix is a Dane County company located on 437 S. Yellowstone Drive, Suite 210 Madison WI 53719.  echoMetrix is a collaborative organization of the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation. 

echoMetrix has received FDA clearance for the Echo Soft Ultra Sound Technology.  echoMetrix combines a comprehensive soft ware package with diagnostic ultra sound to help providers diagnose and monitor a musculoskeletal injury.  The Echo Soft technology is designed to be compatable with most of the ultra sound equipment in use today. 

Echo Soft soft ware creates color images helping trained staff interpret changes to muscle, ligament, and tendon structure. Alteration in the integrity of a muscle, ligament or tendon can be identified and progress toward wellness can be tracked.  This gives the provider an advanced measure of control with treatment plans.

Echo Soft combines with ultra sound to deliver accurate medical images at a tolerable expense.  Utilizing the Echo Soft Ultra Sound rather than a traditional MRI significantly lowers the clinic cost.

Focusing on military, community and sports injuries echoMetrix is ready to participate in some real economic activity by distributing Echo Soft technology to existing ultra sound users.   Home Care Path wishes echoMetrix of Madison Wisconsin the best of luck with this advancement in pain management. 

Home Care Path is a leading senior care provider serving south central Wisconsin.  Services include:
-in home staffing with help for ADL's and IADL's
-inpatient advocacy for safe successful hospital stays
-crisis intervention with transitional counseling
-temporary help with a scheduled day surgery
-packing and shipping with gift giving season
-down sizing home contents when stuff matters
-communicate face to face on computer across long distances
Simply call 608-432-4286 to schedule an in home interview.  2012 rates are 20.00 per hour.  Email lkutzke@homecarepath.onmicrosoft.com  We accept long term care insurance.  We can be there when you are working.  Services are tax deductible.  Valuing home and human life.

NUAN plus TRCR equals More Market Density Per Service Area

Nuance Communications (NUAN) in April 2012 purchased Transcend Services Incorporated (TRCR) which enhanced the market density in their defined service areas.  Metropolitan, Community, and Rural hospitals reside on the combined customer list.

Nuance Communications (NUAN) delivers voice enabled clinical documentation.  Transcend Services Incorporated (TRCR) delivers medical transcription and speech editing services.  The two combine their expertise to serve more hospital providers with an accelerated documentation process.

NUAN and TRCR create a service designed to improve the way collected information can be accepted, processed, and utilized.  Systems to convert provider dictation in to an easily accessed storage of electronic data.

Conversion from voice to record includes clinical language enhancements produced with (ICD-10) medical classifications developed by (WHO) the world health organization.  This creates hard documentation from provider recitation that can be used in a more meaningful way. 

Voice to electronic health record is thought to reduce the investment of time a provider must spend on documentation.  This allows additional patient visit time.  The streamlined process is thought to provide a more accurate patient chart.  The system facilitates timely retreival of information.  This reduces the time a collaborating provider spends reviewing recent documentation.

The products and service are marketed to hospital systems to insure meaningful use of their electronic health records.  Evolving medical practise with a goal of delivering accountable care to a larger service population.   Home Care Path wishes NUAN and TRCR good luck in this recent acquisition.

Home Care Path is a leading senior care provider serving south central Wisconsin.  Services include:
-in home staffing with help for ADL's and IADL's
-inpatient advocacy for safe successful hospital stays
-crisis intervention with transitional counseling
-temporary help with a scheduled day surgery
-packing and shipping with gift giving season
-down sizing home contents when stuff matters
-communicating face to face on the computer across long distances
Simply call 608-432-4286 to schedule an in home interview.  2012 rates are 20.00 per hour.  Email lkutzke@homecarepath.onmicrosoft.com  We accept long term care insurance.  We can be there when you are working.  Services are tax deductible.  Valuing home and human life.