Home Health Line Breaking News
10/05/2017
CMS is hosting an open door forum 2 p.m. to 3 p.m. EST Oct. 10 to discuss modifications and proposed changes to how CMS calculates the quality of care star ratings for home health agencies. The changes include removing the influenza measure.
10/05/2017
As part of ongoing efforts to raise awareness about the upcoming change to Medicare numbers and cards, CMS has unveiled the new design as well as a print-friendly fact sheet about the cards.
10/02/2017
by: CMS
CMS says hospices should use this new checklist "to facilitate compliance with HQRP activities," though the checklist doesn't guarantee compliance with the program overall.
09/19/2017
CMS has granted disaster-related exceptions under certain Medicare quality reporting and value-based purchasing programs to home health agencies, hospices and many other types of providers in areas affected by hurricanes Harvey and Irma.
09/14/2017
A Texas-based home health agency is teaming up with the Red Cross to help senior citizens forced into shelters after Hurricane Harvey.
09/07/2017
The feds' dishonor roll of entities that have sustained a HIPAA breach of 500 individuals or more has topped 2,000 for the first time.
08/30/2017
CMS has begun posting termination notices online for affected providers including home health agencies.
08/28/2017
As Hurricane Harvey hit Texas and the flood waters rose, vulnerable seniors were among those most in need of help.
08/24/2017
The document contains 11 questions and their answers. One Q&A relates to wound items M1311 and M1313 and three related to drug regimen review items M2001, M2003 and M2005.
08/16/2017
Hospice Compare’s launch Aug. 16 confirms that, for the most part, hospices already perform well on the Hospice Item Set (HIS). But there’s still room for improvement on at least one measure — pain assessments.

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