Home Health Line
11/16/2023
Home health agencies often get so caught up in caring for patients that it can be difficult to see when hospice and palliative care may be more appropriate. If patients don’t get the hospice care when they need it, it could cause a risk for hospitalization. 
11/16/2023
Certain hospices and home health agencies have until December 5 to collect and report employee demographic data to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) to comply with the mandated EEO-1 Component 1 Data Collection. Agencies that don’t comply with this requirement can face fines, and even jail time.
11/16/2023
Agencies nationally have seen steady improvement on the Care Compare item “How often patients got better at getting in and out of bed.”
11/09/2023
Agencies may have received a reprieve from the full 5.78% payment cut expected in the 2024 final home health rule, but the fight continues for changes to the formula or a delay in cuts until more data are available on the impact of PDGM on agency behavior. 
11/09/2023
Make sure your clinicians are accurately scoring GG items as changes set in the final rule make several of these items critical to your Care Compare public reporting and your bottom line under HHVBP.
11/09/2023
Beginning in 2024, agencies will receive a low comorbidity adjustment for Respiratory 10 (2019 Novel Coronavirus). That was one of the many changes to the subgroups that lead to high and low comorbidity adjustments and functional impairment levels finalized in the final rule.
11/09/2023
CMS is moving forward with the hospice Special Focus Program, effective January 1. Unfortunately, it’s too late for hospices to make changes to avoid being selected for the program.
11/09/2023
Apply the information you’re collecting now around Social Determinants of Health (SDoH) and health equity to get ahead of future quality measures alluded to by CMS in the 2024 Home Health Prospective Payment System final rule.
11/09/2023
In justifying permanent payment cuts for home health providers, CMS notes in the 2024 final rule that the number of agencies operating under negative margins has not increased under PDGM.
11/02/2023
CMS reiterated it expects to claw back more than $3.4 billion in the next few years to account for what it sees as overpayments from 2020 through 2022.

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