Home Health Line Breaking News
05/10/2024
A Texas hospice provider was accused of submitting false claims and knowingly retaining overpayments for hospice patients who were not terminally ill.
05/06/2024
Elara Caring faces $163,627 in proposed penalties from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) following the death of a licensed practical nurse during an Oct. 28, 2023, home visit in Willimantic, Connecticut.
05/03/2024
Updated manual with new COVID vaccine question is effective Jan. 1, 2025.
05/03/2024
There were 13,900 new jobs in home health, compared to 13,500 new jobs reported in hospitals.
05/03/2024
Updated manual with new COVID vaccine question is effective Jan. 1, 2025.
04/29/2024
Agencies will want to update their cost report forms to account for one new field and one field that has been removed.
CMS released the updated form on April 29, 2024.
04/26/2024
CMS has updated its four-page “Original Medicare vs. Medicare Advantage” fact sheet to highlight home health payment requirements around a patient’s shift between fee-for-service and an MA plan.
04/25/2024
“How often the home health team determined whether patients received a flu shot for the current flu season” is down from 74% last April to 72.8% in the latest data. In April 2022, the agencies reporting that they had checked flu shot status was at 78.2%.
04/22/2024
The requirement that 80% of Medicaid payments for home care services go to workers’ wages will be effective six years after the effective date of the rule.
 
04/21/2024
Experts say that most of these denials traditionally have been due to the physician certification and signature requirements.

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