Home Health Line Breaking News
03/19/2017
Conduct a brief test to determine caregiver stress/strain. Agencies often focus all their attention on the patient, not realizing the caregiver’s health is vital to the patient’s long-term success. But reversing this trend will help agencies significantly with patient outcomes and HHCAHPS results.
03/16/2017
Medicare payment rates for home health agencies should be reduced by 5% in 2017, and there should be a two-year rebasing of the payment system beginning in 2019.
03/16/2017
Amid the uncertainty in the insurance marketplace, a 55-43 Senate vote on March 13 installed Seema Verma as the new administrator of CMS
03/07/2017
Two judges have blocked President Donald J. Trump's new executive order that bans travel from several predominantly Muslim countries.
03/06/2017
Seema Verma is a short step from taking the reins at CMS. On March 2, the Senate Finance Committee cast a 13-12 vote to send Verma ahead to a full Senate confirmation.
02/10/2017

The U.S. Senate on Feb. 10 approved Rep. Tom Price to oversee HHS.

01/18/2017
The National Council of State Boards of Nursing created a social media quiz to help nurses understand the scope of patient privacy and nurses’ obligations when using social and electronic media.
01/09/2017
After about 20 years, CMS has moved forward with drastic revisions to its Medicare and Medicaid Home Health Conditions of Participation (CoPs).
01/06/2017

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.

12/20/2016
CMS’ pre-claim review demonstration, which has caused great consternation for Illinois agencies this year, is expanding to Florida in April 2017, the Federal Medicare agency announced Dec. 19.

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