Home Health Line Breaking News
06/28/2018
CMS has scheduled a home health, hospice and durable medical equipment open door forum for 2 p.m. to 3 p.m. EST July 11. 
06/26/2018
CMS recently received an application from Community Health Accreditation Partner (CHAP) for continued approval of its hospice accreditation program.
06/26/2018
Watch out for new Medicare cards in your agency: CMS confirmed this month that it has started sending out the new cards with new Medicare beneficiary identifiers (MBIs), and some of your patients may have already received them.
06/25/2018
CMS has announced that hospice provider preview reports and Hospice CAHPS survey provider preview reports have been updated and are now available for providers to view.
06/19/2018
CMS has recently posted an updated home health process quality measure table as a result of the revisions made to the timely initiation of care measure. The document was modified to further align with the revised Home Health Conditions of Participation (CoPs), which took effect Jan. 13.
06/18/2018
Many home health agencies were taken aback in early June after receiving what appeared to be additional documentation requests (ADRs) from SafeGuard Services LLC, a Unified Program Integrity Contractor (UPIC).
06/13/2018
CMS will address frequently asked questions on quality measures, standardized data elements, the CMS data element library and future directions of the IMPACT Act, according to the event description.
06/12/2018
Providers will have a total of 473 code changes beginning Oct. 1, including  279 new codes, 143 revised codes and 51 deactivated codes, according to the final list of changes issued June 11 by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
06/11/2018
When comparing the first and second performance years of value-based purchasing, it appears home health agencies in value-based states improved about the same percentage as agencies that weren’t.
06/08/2018
Medicare, Medicaid and other federal programs may soon find a new home, as the Trump administration seeks to rename the Department of Health and Human Services, according to a report in Politico.

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