Home Health Line Breaking News
04/11/2018
The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has changed its stance and will now, once again, find that two or more entities are joint employers of a single workforce if they share or determine together matters governing the essential terms and conditions of employment.
04/04/2018
Educate your agency's patients about newly designed Medicare cards that contain the new Medicare Beneficiary Identifier (MBI). CMS has started to mail out the newly designed cards. And health care providers should have staff understand what's happening so they can address patients' questions, health care consultant Duane Abbey of Iowa-based Abbey & Abbey Consultants said during an April 9 webinar.
04/04/2018
CMS has decided to extend the deadline for appellants who wish to take advantage of a settlement option for a low volume of pending appeals at the third and/or fourth levels of appeal.
04/04/2018
Non-skilled, in-home supports will be allowed as a Medicare Advantage benefit starting in 2019.
04/04/2018
Providers now have the chance to weigh in on proposed quality measures dealing with transfer of health information.
03/29/2018
During a special open door forum March 28, CMS and contractor RAND Corporation discussed their progress with standardized post-acute data elements being tested as a result of the IMPACT Act.
03/28/2018
Get vital information through in-depth sessions on compliance, the new CoPs with a focus on QAPI, OASIS changes, documentation, outcomes improvement and care-transition programs.
03/28/2018
Hospice providers now have the opportunity to learn more about the Hospice Quality Reporting Program website and refined coding guidance for the Hospice Item Set (HIS).
03/22/2018
CMS has published supporting documents for the OASIS-D revision, giving providers a clearer picture of the major changes coming to the assessment, effective Jan. 1, 2019.
03/16/2018
The forum will include an update on national testing of standardized patient assessment data elements mandated by the IMPACT Act.

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