Home Health Line Breaking News
05/13/2021
CMS has released an interim final rule that sets COVID-19 vaccine requirements for long-term care facilities and intermediate care facilities for individuals with intellectual disabilities.
05/10/2021
CMS is clarifying guidance in the Medicare Benefit Policy Manual related to 2021 RAP requirements and the rules around a substitute signature on the plan of care.
05/07/2021
CMS has increased the Medicare payment rate for administering monoclonal antibodies to treat beneficiaries with COVID-19, continuing coverage under the Medicare Part B COVID-19 vaccine benefit.
05/07/2021
Exceptions are allowed for RAPs approved outside of the five-day window in 2021, but agencies should include information in the remarks field indicating the reason the RAP was late.
05/07/2021
A medical clinic owner in Richmond, Texas, has been ordered to serve 25 years in prison after being convicted of conspiracy and aiding and abetting health care fraud in a $11 million home health Medicare scam.
04/30/2021
The Department of Health and Human Services has released a new toolkit to help organizations educate older adults on the COVID-19 vaccines and basic prevention measures around the pandemic.
04/30/2021
Agencies and industry advocates are lobbying for action on the new version of the Home Health Emergency Access to Telehealth (HEAT) Act, introduced in the U.S. Senate on April 22.
04/30/2021
CMS has implemented a change in the collection of accelerated and advanced payments to begin collections on those funds not repaid across affiliated providers within the same taxpayer identification number (TIN) and also across workloads within a single organization.
04/28/2021
CMS’ proposed update to the ICD-10 diagnosis codes does not include U09.9 (Post COVID-19 condition, unspecified). This new code that would capture post COVID-19 conditions or cases when a patient continues to have lingering symptoms after the infection is gone was proposed during the virtual March 10 ICD-10-CM Coordination and Maintenance Committee meeting for an Oct. 1 implementation date.
04/28/2021
CMS’ proposed update to the ICD-10 diagnosis codes does not include U09.9 (Post COVID-19 condition, unspecified). This new code that would capture post COVID-19 conditions or cases when a patient continues to have lingering symptoms after the infection is gone was proposed during the virtual March 10 ICD-10-CM Coordination and Maintenance Committee meeting for an Oct. 1 implementation date.

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