Home Health Line Breaking News
01/30/2023
RCD does not include a separate appeal process for a non-affirmed pre-claim review decision, according to Palmetto.
01/23/2023
Agencies soon could see more automated rejections as CMS updates its claims processing system to correct a pandemic-era blind spot that was requiring manual review by MACs.
01/23/2023
CMS has created new 10-15 minute training videos for providers that focus on commonly cited deficiencies.
01/23/2023
Four national hospice organizations have called on CMS and Congress to strengthen hospice program integrity through key legislative and regulatory changes.
01/17/2023
CMS provides further guidance on answering N0415 (High-risk drug classes: use and indication) — an item that has raised a lot of questions for clinicians in the early days of OASIS-E. This new information was part of 13 answers in the first quarter OASIS Q&As, released Jan. 17.
01/16/2023
“The majority of the claims being returned are provider billing error and need to be corrected,” the MACs noted in their message to agencies.
01/13/2023
The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) voted unanimously Jan. 12 to recommend that Congress cut home health payment rates by 7% in 2024.
01/11/2023
As expected, HHS has extended the COVID-19 public health emergency until at least the second week of April.
01/09/2023
The rate is commonly used as a default metric to reimburse employees for business travel.
01/09/2023
Home health care services continued to show strong growth in December, adding 10,800 jobs over the month.

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