Home Health Line Breaking News
07/01/2019
CMS has posted pre-training materials for the recent home heath quality reporting program webinar on achieving a full Annual Payment Update (APU) or market basket increase.
07/01/2019
In it’s June 2019 report, the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) provided additional detail on what a unified post-acute care payment model might look like.
06/24/2019
In an effort to reduce burden, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and CMS are seeking to update regulations around nondiscrimination outlined in the Affordable Care Act (ACA).
06/24/2019
Legislation introduced in both the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives would allow occupational therapists to open home health episodes of care by conducting the initial visit and comprehensive assessment.
06/24/2019
More than 175 commenters shared their thoughts on the proposed hospice payment rule.
06/21/2019
The CDC has posted the FY2020 ICD-CM final code changes, and there were no changes to the proposed list of 273 new, 30 revised and 21 invalidated codes that were released in the proposed inpatient hospital prospective payment system rule, April 23. 
06/16/2019
CMS recently posted training materials for a June 11 webinar about hospice review and correct reports.
06/15/2019
Agencies seeking for burden reductions in the home health or hospice industries should submit comments on CMS’ new request for information (RFI) as part of the patients over paperwork initiative.
06/15/2019
CMS announced it will hold a webinar 2 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. EST June 19 for home health agencies on “Achieving a Full Annual Payment Update (APU)/Market Basket Increase.”
06/10/2019
CMS has updated hospice provider preview reports and Hospice CAHPS provider preview reports.

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