Home Health Line Breaking News
09/10/2019
CMS has issued blanket waivers in Florida, Georgia, South Carolina and Puerto Rico.
08/30/2019
A patient recruiter was found guilty of one count of conspiracy to pay and receive health care kickbacks and three counts of receipt of health care kickbacks, according to the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ).
08/30/2019
Learn about the new Medicare cards and the Medicare Beneficiary Identifiers (MBIs) during an upcoming open door forum. CMS is hosting the open door forum Wednesday, Sept. 11 from 2 to 3 p.m. EST.
08/30/2019
In the August refresh of Hospice Compare, providers nationwide scored 86.4% on the “Hospice and palliative care composite process measure.”
08/26/2019
Payment rates for hospice care, the hospice cap amount, and the hospice wage index updates finalized in the 2020 hospice payment rule will take effect Oct. 1, and CMS has released a transmittal and MLN matters article on the changes.
08/26/2019
CMS completed all seven waves of its mailings earlier this year, and the push to transition to the new MBIs is ongoing. The federal Medicare agency re-released an MLN Matters Article "to encourage providers to use MBIs now." 
08/26/2019
CMS has released post-training materials, including a Q&A document, following a recent webinar entitled “Achieving a Full Annual Payment Update (APU)/Market Basket Increase.”
08/20/2019
The model "encourages advanced primary care practices, including providers whose clinicians are enrolled in Medicare who typically provide hospice or palliative care services," according CMS.
08/20/2019
Across the board 2% Medicare sequestration will continue for an additional two years.
08/20/2019
The correction was needed because there was an error affecting the reporting of the claims-based measures "Acute care hospitalization" and "Emergency department use without hospitalization," according to CMS.

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