Home Health Line Breaking News
08/17/2018
With Hospice CAHPS data, the measure involving emotional and spiritual support ticked upward by 1% in the Aug. 16 refresh of Hospice Compare.
08/16/2018
Among the seven Hospice Item Set (HIS) measures posted on Hospice Compare, providers once again improved the most on “Hospice and palliative care pain assessment” during the August 2018 refresh.
08/15/2018
CMS plans to hospice a webinar this week to explain how it takes raw Hospice Item Set (HIS) data and calculates quality measures.
08/13/2018
There’s good news for agencies caught up in the daunting backlog of appeals at the Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) level. The backlog has been reduced by more than 30% since 2017.
08/10/2018
CMS has released an errata to its guidance manual for OASIS-D.
08/07/2018
Just 27 home health agencies have maintained a 5-star rating in quality of care during the 13 quarters the star ratings system has existed. The latest ratings were released July 25.
08/06/2018
The following is a list of the 27 home health agencies that have achieved 5-star ratings in quality each quarter from July 2015 through July 2018.
08/02/2018
by: HCPro
A large clinical trial has, for the first time, shown that a drug can reduce both plaques in the brains of patients with Alzheimer’s disease and slow the progression of their dementia.
08/01/2018
CMS has once again extended its moratoria on new home health agencies and new branches of existing home health agencies by six months in six metropolitan areas.
08/01/2018
The hospice industry will receive $340 million in increased payments in 2019, according to CMS’ final hospice payment rule posted Aug, 1 on the Federal Register. That’s nearly twice the payment increase from 2018.

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