Home Health Line Breaking News
12/15/2018
The nationwide recovery auditor (RAC) that handles issues involving home health, hospice and durable medical equipment (DME) recently added an issue involving DME while in hospice.
12/14/2018
HHS’ Office for Civil Rights (OCR) has issued a request for information (RFI) to help it identify provisions of HIPAA privacy and security regulations that should be modified.
12/10/2018
CMS has announced that it its review choice demonstration won't launch as planned in Illinois on Dec. 10.
12/09/2018
CMS will host a two-part webinar 1 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. EST Dec. 13 called “Updates to Public Reporting in Fiscal Year 2019: Hospice Comprehensive Assessment Measure and Data Correction Deadlines.”
12/08/2018
On the Hospice CAHPS survey, the response rate for the public reporting period second quarter of 2016 through the first quarter of 2018 is 33%.
12/08/2018
Hospices scored 83.6% on a new Hospice Item Set (HIS) composite measure that appeared on Hospice Compare as part of the website’s Nov. 30 quarterly refresh.
12/04/2018
With Hospice CAHPS data, no scores changed during the latest refresh of Hospice Compare.
12/02/2018
CMS will hold its next HHCAHPS vendor update webinar training session from noon to 2 p.m. EST Feb. 1.
12/02/2018
12/01/2018
HHS' Office of Inspector General (OIG) has added a new item to its work plan: "Protecting Medicare Hospice Beneficiaries From Harm."

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