Home Health Line Breaking News
06/10/2015
Congress appears poised to let the ICD-10 code set take effect Oct. 1, but at least two new bills would require CMS to enact a grace period for providers on or after the effective date.
 
 
06/09/2015
Agencies’ payments may change as a result of two corrections CMS is making the 2015 Home Health Pricer program.
06/09/2015
A recent MLN Matters article outlined several websites that agencies and other providers can use to help them in submitting correct ICD-10 codes to Medicare.
06/04/2015
CMS posted the latest version of the Hospice Item Set (HIS) to its website June 2.
 
 
06/03/2015
The Senate Finance Committee has approved a bill aimed at reducing the backlog of nearly 900,000 Medicare claims now awaiting administrative law judge (ALJ) hearings. 
 
 
06/02/2015
Don’t forget to remind your data vendors of the changes in file structures CMS has made to accommodate the use of ICD-10 diagnosis codes submitted with the April 21, 2016 data submission.
 
 
06/02/2015
CMS’ second-ever ICD-10 end-to-end testing week did not identify any issues with home health claims, and the home health problem discovered during January’s testing week was indeed fixed.
 
 
06/01/2015
The nationwide review of every home health agency’s face-to-face documentation has yielded a denial rate of 49.2%.
 
 
05/28/2015
CMS is calling on stakeholders and experts to apply by June 1 and contribute direction and thoughtful input as its contractors RTI International and Abt Associates develop potentially avoidable readmission measures in alignment with the Improving Post-Acute Care Transformation (IMPACT) Act of 2014.
 
 
05/27/2015
To ensure agencies understand the new patient certification requirements outlined in the 2015 PPS final rule, CMS has decided to conduct pre-payment reviews of claims for episodes beginning on or after Aug. 1, 2015.
 
 

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