Home Health Line Breaking News
02/27/2018
If Home Health CAHPS survey vendors want to display an agency’s name and/or logo on mailing envelopes, the vendors need to obtain the agency’s permission, according to CMS.
02/27/2018
Home health agencies that are eligible to be exempted from the Home Health CAHPS survey must complete the exemption form by 11:59 p.m. EST April 2.
02/21/2018
The National Association of Home Care and Hospice (NAHC) announced the appointment of its new president.
02/13/2018
Some pressure ulcer data was mistakenly excluded from recent CMS reports on quality measures for home health agencies, but CMS says the data will be corrected before the measure is publicly reported on Home Health Compare.
02/06/2018
A bill designed to keep the federal government funded through March 23 has passed in the House and will next head to the Senate. The bill has several provisions involving home health, including revisions to the face-to-face requirement and the addition of a new payment model similar to the Home Health Groupings Model (HHGM).
02/01/2018
Change Request 10372 issued Jan. 5 makes a total of three edits around home health claims processing. The edits address problems arising from public health emergency waivers and matching claims to OASIS assessments.
01/31/2018
CMS has recently posted an audio recording and transcript from its Dec. 12 open door forum about the IMPACT Act.
01/30/2018
CMS has once again extended its moratoria on new home health agencies and new branches of existing home health agencies by six months in six metropolitan areas.
01/29/2018
Nominations for a panel on the development of potentially preventable hospitalization measures for home health agencies are due Feb. 22.
01/29/2018
The fines for Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) violations have been adjusted for inflation.

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