Home Health Line Breaking News
04/26/2024
CMS has updated its four-page “Original Medicare vs. Medicare Advantage” fact sheet to highlight home health payment requirements around a patient’s shift between fee-for-service and an MA plan.
04/25/2024
“How often the home health team determined whether patients received a flu shot for the current flu season” is down from 74% last April to 72.8% in the latest data. In April 2022, the agencies reporting that they had checked flu shot status was at 78.2%.
04/22/2024
The requirement that 80% of Medicaid payments for home care services go to workers’ wages will be effective six years after the effective date of the rule.
 
04/21/2024
Experts say that most of these denials traditionally have been due to the physician certification and signature requirements.
04/16/2024
A recent CMS change request is addressing an issue on home health claims identified by the OIG, along with a handful of updates to the Claims Processing Manual Chapter 10.  
04/16/2024
A fall that occurs due to a medical event, such as a seizure, is considered a fall for the purposes of coding M1033 (Risk for Hospitalization), J1800 (Any fall since SOC/ROC) and J1900 (Number of falls since SOC/ROC), CMS clarified in the April 2024 quarterly OASIS Q&As — released April 16. 
04/10/2024
The proposed ICD-10 code changes — released with the FY2025 Hospital Inpatient PPS (IPPS) proposed rule on April 10 –   include three new codes to better track the severity of patients with hypoglycemia.
04/09/2024
The Joint Commission has released its top five most challenging requirements for 2023 for home health care organizations.
04/08/2024
Massachusetts prosecutors have announced the indictment of four individuals related to “a wide-spread personal care attendant and home health Medicaid fraud scheme.”
04/05/2024
Home health care services now account for nearly 1.725 million jobs.

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