Home Health Line Breaking News
12/04/2020
Sen. Angus King, I-Maine, has introduced three new pieces of legislation targeting home care quality and support for care providers.
12/04/2020
CMS is ready to test a payment and care model that would likely include new opportunities for home health and hospice providers, according to industry leaders.
11/30/2020
State and federal health officials are fleshing out their final plans for who will get a COVID-19 vaccine first.
11/30/2020
In a November 20, 2020, CMS press release, a drug payment model through the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation will lower Medicare Part B payments on certain drugs.
11/25/2020
CMS will soon begin testing the inclusion of the Part A Hospice Benefit within the MA benefits package through the Hospice Benefit Component of the Value-Based Insurance Design (VBID) Model.
11/23/2020
New data on home health referrals during the pandemic notes what industry leaders have been saying for months: home health clinicians are on the front lines during the COVID-19 pandemic, treating an increasing number of patients, including those with the coronavirus.
11/23/2020
In honor of National Hospice and Palliative Care Month, the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO) announced a new quality program, NHPCO Quality Connections, in a news release on November 5, 2020.
11/20/2020
CMS announced that it will retire the original compare tools Dec. 1.
11/16/2020
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) proposed a new rule November 4 that would require a review of rules every 10 years “to determine whether the regulation is still needed and whether it is having appropriate impacts,” according to a release.
 
11/16/2020
CMS has provided a new toolkit for state Medicaid agencies to deliver home and community-based services (HCBS) for those beneficiaries who are eligible, according to a November 2CMS press release.

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