Home Health Line
07/15/2021
Agencies could see some changes in the way that CMS determines home health payments in 2022 if proposed changes to the comorbidity adjustment and functional impairment points get finalized.
07/15/2021
New hospice survey requirements, tucked in the 2022 proposed home health payment rule, call for more oversight and enforcement of health and safety requirements and establishes new regulations for surveyors.
07/15/2021
These tables show the percentage of 30-day periods of care that fell into each of the comorbidity adjustment categories and functional impairment levels for 2020.
07/15/2021
CMS is proposing to change the number of points assigned to the OASIS items that drive reimbursement in the Patient-Driven Groupings Model (PDGM).
07/01/2021
CMS has announced a national expansion of the Home Health Value-Based Purchasing (HHVBP) model beginning Jan. 1, 2022.
07/01/2021
Recent high-profile settlements from federal and state labor investigations highlight the risk home health agencies face in complying with strict policies around wage-and-hour rules.
07/01/2021
Despite being absent from the codes listed in the April proposed code update, U09.9 (Post COVID-19 condition, unspecified) was included as part of the 159 new codes finalized to be added to the ICD-10 code set on Oct. 1.
07/01/2021
Home care agencies ranked recruitment and retention as the number one growth strategy in 2021, with an increase of 13.7% over the year before.
07/01/2021
More than a year after the COVID-19 pandemic upended the nature of work as we knew it, it’s no surprise that there has also been a transformation in how people are recruited and hired for work.
07/01/2021
In 2020, more agencies than ever before listed caregiver shortages as an extreme threat to their business, according to the 2021 Home Care Benchmarking Study. The survey from Home Care Pulse included responses from 800 providers.

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