Home Health Line Breaking News
09/17/2014
The first-ever ICD-10 end-to-end testing week will occur Jan. 26-30.
 
 
09/15/2014
The question of whether private duty agencies will have to pay overtime to the aides they provide to seniors and the disabled in need of home support services now depends on legal arguments and counter-arguments recently presented to a U.S. district court judge in Washington.
09/02/2014
A list of vendors conditionally approved to administer the Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (CAHPS) hospice survey has been posted on the survey's website.
08/27/2014
CMS will allow acknowledgement testing at any time before the Oct. 1, 2015, ICD-10 deadline, but it instructed Medicare administrative contractors (MACs) to promote it during three specific weeks. Specific dates have been announced.
 
 
08/25/2014
Four months after supplemental medical review contractor (SMRC) StrategicHealthSolutions LLC began examining five claims from every agency nationwide in an effort to create more consistent audits among CMS contractors, it has begun issuing claims denials.
 
08/05/2014
One piece of good news in the latest Medicare trustees’ report is that home health no longer is one of the reasons for a rapidly depleting Medicare’s Part A trust fund. In fact, the fund will remain solvent through 2030, or four years longer than the trustees predicted last year, the report states.
08/05/2014
Recovery auditors (RACs) are going to resume auditing some claims now, rather than waiting for new RAC contracts to be awarded, CMS announced Aug. 4.
 
07/29/2014
Kindred Healthcare is continuing to pursue purchasing Gentiva Health Services, but it’s dropping its offer buy 14.9% of the outstanding shares of Gentiva for $16 per share in cash.
 
 
07/29/2014
CMS has extended its moratoria on new home health agencies and new branches of existing home health agencies by six months in six metropolitan areas, CMS announced July 29.
 
07/18/2014
A bill recently filed in the U.S. House would delay, for one year, employer mandate provisions in the Affordable Care Act for large home health agencies.
 
 

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