Home Health Line Breaking News
12/01/2018
The recently posted Home Health CAHPS survey participation exemption for size request form is available for the 2020 annual payment update, which is between April 1, 2018, and March 31, 2019.
11/30/2018
CMS plans to survey home health agencies on quality reporting and incentive programs, according to a Paperwork Reduction Act notice posted Nov. 15 in the Federal Register.
11/26/2018
The hospice quality reporting update for the third quarter of 2018 is now available for download.
11/25/2018
by: CMS
The following 15 HIPPS groups will have the lowest case-mix weights under PDGM, according to the 2019 PPS final rule.
11/24/2018
by: CMS
The following 15 HIPPS groups will have the highest case-mix weights under PDGM, according to the 2019 PPS final rule.
11/17/2018
When Hospice Compare is refreshed this month, it will, for the first time, include the Hospice and Palliative Care Composite Process Measure — Comprehensive Assessment at Admission (NQF #3235), also known as “the Hospice Comprehensive Assessment Measure.”
11/17/2018
The Home Health CAHPS survey is now available in Armenian.
11/16/2018
CMS has announced that from 2 p.m. to 3 p.m. EST Nov. 29, it will hold a question-and-answer session related to guidance on the OASIS-D presented during webinars in August and September and a Train-the-Trainer event in Baltimore in November.
11/11/2018
Hospices have until 11:59 p.m. EST Nov. 14 to submit data for patients who passed away in April, May or June 2018.
11/10/2018
Despite the fact that payment episodes under the Patient-Driven Groupings Model (PDGM) will last 30 days instead of 60, LUPAs still will occur under the new payment model CMS is creating beginning on or after Jan. 1, 2020.

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