Home Health Line Breaking News
01/18/2019
Fines for Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) violations have been adjusted for inflation. A pre-publication version of the U.S. Department of Labor's final rule increasing the civil monetary penalties was posted Jan. 15.
01/15/2019
About two weeks after OASIS-D took effect, CMS has issued its quarterly Q&A update providing guidance on items new to the assessment, as well as items that were also present on OASIS-C2.
01/13/2019
The next data submission deadline for HHCAHPS is 11:59 p.m. EST Jan. 17. But note that CMS says that to ensure files can be accepted by the deadline, files must be submitted on or before Jan. 16.
01/12/2019
The Hospice CAHPS survey participation exemption for size request form is now available for the 2019 calendar year.
01/11/2019
Agencies can now use CASPER to download quality of patient care star rating preview reports for the April 2019 Home Health Compare refresh, according to CMS. 
01/06/2019
Hospice CAHPS survey reports provider preview reports and hospice provider preview reports have been updated and are now available.
01/04/2019
This year, CMS announced strategies to help Medicare Part D sponsors prevent and combat opioid overuse.
01/03/2019
Hospices battling the ongoing nursing shortage have two additional years to use contract nurses due to “extraordinary circumstances,” CMS has announced.
12/30/2018
CMS has published updated details on potentially avoidable events, process and outcome measures for 2019. The updated tables also include details on star-ratings measures and quality measures new to Home Health Compare in 2019.
12/29/2018
Medical tech innovations are much in the news these days. While many of these seem like distant, pie-in-the-sky ideas, experts tell DecisionHealth you can expect see some widely used in health care over the next few years.

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