Home Health Line Breaking News
02/23/2016
CMS is accepting nominations for a Technical Expert Panel (TEP) to examine quality of care star ratings.
02/16/2016
CMS is accepting nominations for the IMPACT Act Technical Expert Panel (TEP). The panel will develop and maintain standardized patient assessment data.
02/10/2016
Home health billers need to look out for a new condition code for reporting episodes with no skilled visits.
02/08/2016
The HHCAHPS Coordination Team has corrected Appendix B, p. B-5, of the HHCAHPS Protocols and Guidelines Manual Version 8.0 to change the field length of each of the ICD-10 “Primary diagnosis” and “Other diagnoses” elements now correctly displays as “7” rather than “5.” 
01/28/2016
CMS on Jan. 28 released its first-ever patient experience of care star ratings for the home health industry.
01/27/2016
Effective July 1, agencies will have to comply with a face-to-face encounter requirement for Medicaid home health care, similar to the requirements for Medicare.
01/21/2016
CMS has released the January 2016 OASIS Q&As on its OASIS User Guides & Training website.
01/21/2016
CMS' next home health, hospice & DME open door forum is scheduled for 2 p.m. to 3 p.m. EST Jan. 27.
 
01/19/2016
The HHCAHPS Data Submission Tool will be unavailable for about two weeks beginning Jan. 25 as the HHCAHPS Coordination Team transitions the tool to accept ICD-10 codes.
01/15/2016
CMS will make interim Quality Assessment Only (QAO) data available through CASPER reports that show agency performance against the QAO metric.

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