Home Health Line Breaking News
06/12/2018
Providers will have a total of 473 code changes beginning Oct. 1, including  279 new codes, 143 revised codes and 51 deactivated codes, according to the final list of changes issued June 11 by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
06/11/2018
When comparing the first and second performance years of value-based purchasing, it appears home health agencies in value-based states improved about the same percentage as agencies that weren’t.
06/08/2018
Medicare, Medicaid and other federal programs may soon find a new home, as the Trump administration seeks to rename the Department of Health and Human Services, according to a report in Politico.
06/07/2018
As CMS looks at relaunching a claim review demonstration for home health services, it's even more important to get your documentation ready for scrutiny.
06/06/2018
Amazon has started a “health & wellness” team tasked with making the Alexa voice assistant more helpful to the healthcare industry, according to a CNBC report.
06/04/2018
As patients begin to receive new, social security number-less Medicare cards, your agency will benefit from taking several steps to ease your administrative burden as the slow-rolling initiative officially commences.
06/01/2018
CMS has posted 11 new Q&As about its proposed "Review Choice Demonstration for Home Health Services." CMS proposed this demo on May 29. The proposal comes about a year after CMS paused its pre-claim review demo.
05/30/2018
Bruce Greenstein, chief technology officer with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, is headed to the private sector.
05/30/2018
Five home care aides and two workers’ advocacy groups are challenging the New York Department of Labor’s emergency regulation designed to reinforce a long-standing practice of paying home care aides for 13 hours during a 24-hour shift.
05/29/2018
Among the nine states where value-based purchasing is taking place, Tennessee has the highest percentage of agencies that earned 5 stars, according to an HHL analysis of April 2018 data on Home Health Compare.

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