Home Health Line
12/11/2017
Before sending a final bill for President Donald Trump to sign, the U.S. House and Senate must work to reconcile versions of tax overhaul bills they recently passed.
12/11/2017
CMS has finalized its plan to cancel four mandatory episode payment models for common cardiac and orthopedic conditions, according to a rule posted Nov. 30. The models had been due to begin in January.
12/11/2017
by: Hospital & Healthcare Compensation Service
Medicare skilled home care aides nationwide have a turnover rate of about 23%, according to the Hospital & Healthcare Compensation Service’s 2017-2018 Home Care Salary & Benefits Report.
12/08/2017
Yet another report from the HHS Office of Inspector General (OIG) indicates that Medicaid personal care services are vulnerable to fraud and require greater oversight.
12/05/2017
CMS will hold a webinar Dec. 14 to discuss why it's finalizing a plan to eliminate “Influenza immunization received for current flu season” from the list of measures used to calculate home health quality of care star ratings.
12/04/2017
CMS’ recent decision to wait a year from Jan. 13 before imposing civil monetary penalties involving the revised Home Health Conditions of Participation (CoPs) should be met with considerable relief from agencies scrambling to prepare while awaiting further guidance on the new standards.
12/04/2017
Home health coders are completing more charts per day than they did a year ago, but the specific number of charts appears to vary depending on several factors, including — but not limited to — workload, time requirements, levels of review and individual coders’ abilities.
12/04/2017
Ensure all individual members of multidisciplinary teams work toward a common goal to ensure patients’ pain lessens throughout the episode.
12/04/2017
Without swift movement from Congress in the next few months, nearly 800,000 people protected by the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) will be forced to leave the workforce and the country.
12/04/2017
Employers under federal OSHA jurisdiction, which includes many home health agencies, have until Dec. 15 to learn how to use the agency’s new electronic injury reporting system.

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