Home Health Line Breaking News
07/12/2018
Post-training materials from CMS' May 30 hospice quality reporting data submission and reporting webinar are now available. 
07/10/2018
CMS will hold two webinars on OASIS-D changes relevant to the Home Health Quality Reporting Program (HHQRP) in the coming months to help prepare home health providers for changes coming to program.
07/10/2018
Hospices should attend CMS' open door forum July 11 to learn more about an MLN Matters article related to improvements in hospice billing and claims processing.
07/09/2018
Seeking to eliminate what it considers an unnecessary burden, CMS plans to remove its requirement that certifying physicians must estimate in home health recertifications how much longer skilled services will be necessary.
07/06/2018
by: Julia Kyles, CPC
Providers are not required to encrypt protected health information (PHI), but it's something they should consider. Not only does proper encryption spare a provider the hassle and embarrassment of reporting a breach, but, as a recent article in Medical Practice Compliance Alert warned, it's getting harder for providers to defend the decision not to encrypt. And as the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center just discovered, a provider can expect no mercy when it has a written policy that calls for encryption and suffers a major breach because it failed to follow its own policy.
07/06/2018
For the first time in at least a decade, the proposed home health payment rule discusses increasing agencies’ payments.
07/05/2018
For the first time agencies are getting CMS guidance on how to respond to new items coming to OASIS-D.
07/02/2018
Adjustments to Medicare’s home health payments under the 2019 proposed PPS rule would increase agencies’ total reimbursement by an estimated 2.1%, or $400 million.
07/02/2018
During a June 27 MLN call, CMS presented its rationale for seeking to remove one measure from home health star ratings in quality of care and seeking to add another measure instead.
07/02/2018
In its latest report to Congress, the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) contends that patients discharged from hospitals generally don’t select the best home health agency in their area.

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