Home Health Line Breaking News
08/21/2015
A bipartisan bill introduced by the chairman of the House Ways and Means Health Subcommittee would make Medicare home health agencies, skilled nursing facilities, inpatient rehab facilities and long-term care hospitals compete against each other for quality-based bonus payments.
 
 
08/21/2015
A court ruling released Aug. 21 is in favor of agencies paying overtime wages to home care workers for live-in and companion services.
 
 
08/21/2015
The proposed 2016 PPS rule for home health means Medicare will continue to overpay agencies, according to Aug. 18 comments by  the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC).
 
 
08/19/2015

Agencies should be aware that a set of Public Reporting Provider Preview Reports for Home Health Compare publication on Oct. 8, which was distributed to providers’ CASPER shared folders, contains incorrect data.

 
08/14/2015
CMS on Aug. 12 posted what it hopes will be a final version for the proposed electronic clinical template it created for doctors to use when documenting face-to-face encounters. 
 
 
 
08/13/2015
Home health agencies will be able to obtain an HHCAHPS preview report next month that will, for the first time, include a dry run of HHCAHPS Star Ratings.
 
 
08/12/2015
CMS is directing Medicare administrative contractors (MACs) to instruct hospices to remove or omit from their claims certain oral anti-cancer and anti-emetic drugs until Jan. 1.
 
 
08/06/2015
A U.S. District Court judge listened to oral arguments Aug. 6 in the National Association for Home Care & Hospice’s (NAHC) lawsuit battling the face-to-face requirement.
 
08/03/2015
CMS will move forward with restructuring the way it pays hospices, resulting in the first major payment change in more than 30 years.
 
08/03/2015
The correction CMS has made to Table 9 within the 2016 proposed PPS home health rule was posted on the Federal Register’s website Aug. 3. 
 
 
 
 

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