Home Health Line Breaking News
07/09/2018
Seeking to eliminate what it considers an unnecessary burden, CMS plans to remove its requirement that certifying physicians must estimate in home health recertifications how much longer skilled services will be necessary.
07/06/2018
by: Julia Kyles, CPC
Providers are not required to encrypt protected health information (PHI), but it's something they should consider. Not only does proper encryption spare a provider the hassle and embarrassment of reporting a breach, but, as a recent article in Medical Practice Compliance Alert warned, it's getting harder for providers to defend the decision not to encrypt. And as the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center just discovered, a provider can expect no mercy when it has a written policy that calls for encryption and suffers a major breach because it failed to follow its own policy.
07/06/2018
For the first time in at least a decade, the proposed home health payment rule discusses increasing agencies’ payments.
07/05/2018
For the first time agencies are getting CMS guidance on how to respond to new items coming to OASIS-D.
07/02/2018
Adjustments to Medicare’s home health payments under the 2019 proposed PPS rule would increase agencies’ total reimbursement by an estimated 2.1%, or $400 million.
07/02/2018
During a June 27 MLN call, CMS presented its rationale for seeking to remove one measure from home health star ratings in quality of care and seeking to add another measure instead.
07/02/2018
In its latest report to Congress, the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) contends that patients discharged from hospitals generally don’t select the best home health agency in their area.
06/28/2018
CMS has scheduled a home health, hospice and durable medical equipment open door forum for 2 p.m. to 3 p.m. EST July 11. 
06/26/2018
CMS recently received an application from Community Health Accreditation Partner (CHAP) for continued approval of its hospice accreditation program.
06/26/2018
Watch out for new Medicare cards in your agency: CMS confirmed this month that it has started sending out the new cards with new Medicare beneficiary identifiers (MBIs), and some of your patients may have already received them.

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