Home Health Line Breaking News
06/24/2019
Legislation introduced in both the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives would allow occupational therapists to open home health episodes of care by conducting the initial visit and comprehensive assessment.
06/24/2019
More than 175 commenters shared their thoughts on the proposed hospice payment rule.
06/21/2019
The CDC has posted the FY2020 ICD-CM final code changes, and there were no changes to the proposed list of 273 new, 30 revised and 21 invalidated codes that were released in the proposed inpatient hospital prospective payment system rule, April 23. 
06/16/2019
CMS recently posted training materials for a June 11 webinar about hospice review and correct reports.
06/15/2019
Agencies seeking for burden reductions in the home health or hospice industries should submit comments on CMS’ new request for information (RFI) as part of the patients over paperwork initiative.
06/15/2019
CMS announced it will hold a webinar 2 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. EST June 19 for home health agencies on “Achieving a Full Annual Payment Update (APU)/Market Basket Increase.”
06/10/2019
CMS has updated hospice provider preview reports and Hospice CAHPS provider preview reports.
06/09/2019
CMS continues to work diligently to retool the development of a hospice assessment tool. This includes holding open door forums to discuss the project and seek feedback.
06/08/2019
Agencies in Illinois, North Carolina, Ohio, Florida or Texas can get updates from Medicare Administrative Contractor (MAC) Palmetto GBA about the Review Choice Demonstration (RCD) by listening to Palmetto’s teleconferences in July and August.
06/02/2019
by: Home Health Compare
For several years, the home health industry hasn’t had any positive or negative changes in any of the five major HHCAHPS categories.

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