Home Health Line Breaking News
11/25/2018
by: CMS
The following 15 HIPPS groups will have the lowest case-mix weights under PDGM, according to the 2019 PPS final rule.
11/24/2018
by: CMS
The following 15 HIPPS groups will have the highest case-mix weights under PDGM, according to the 2019 PPS final rule.
11/17/2018
The Home Health CAHPS survey is now available in Armenian.
11/17/2018
When Hospice Compare is refreshed this month, it will, for the first time, include the Hospice and Palliative Care Composite Process Measure — Comprehensive Assessment at Admission (NQF #3235), also known as “the Hospice Comprehensive Assessment Measure.”
11/16/2018
CMS has announced that from 2 p.m. to 3 p.m. EST Nov. 29, it will hold a question-and-answer session related to guidance on the OASIS-D presented during webinars in August and September and a Train-the-Trainer event in Baltimore in November.
11/11/2018
Hospices have until 11:59 p.m. EST Nov. 14 to submit data for patients who passed away in April, May or June 2018.
11/10/2018
Despite the fact that payment episodes under the Patient-Driven Groupings Model (PDGM) will last 30 days instead of 60, LUPAs still will occur under the new payment model CMS is creating beginning on or after Jan. 1, 2020.
11/03/2018
Medicare Administrative Contractor (MAC) Palmetto GBA is inviting Florida, Illinois, North Carolina, Ohio and Texas to attend monthly Review Choice Demonstration teleconferences.  Each teleconference session will be held from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. ET.
 
11/02/2018
CMS will hold its next home health, hospice and durable medical equipment open door forum 2 p.m. EST Nov. 14.
11/01/2018
by: Post-Acute Advisor
In editorials in a recent issue of JAMA, authors discussed the need for more research in developing better screening tools for discovering instances of elder abuse.

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