Home Health Line Breaking News
08/01/2017
Medicare’s hospice payments, adjusted for inflation and other factors, will rise an estimated 1% in 2018, according to the final hospice payment rule posted Aug. 1.
07/31/2017
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.
07/27/2017
Val Halamandaris, president of the National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC), has passed away, NAHC announced July 27.
07/25/2017
In the short term, CMS plans to reduce home health agencies’ payments by 0.4% next year. In the long term, CMS plans to drastically redesign the way agencies are paid beginning in 2019.
07/21/2017
Home Health Compare will be refreshed in October of this year, but will cover the same data collection periods as the July 2017 refresh, according to CMS.
07/21/2017
The proposed PPS rule for home health is generally released in late June or early July, but that’s not the case this year — and there’s no clear indication about when the rule is coming.
07/17/2017
Only a select group of 43 agencies that earned 5 stars in quality of care July 12 have remained on top all along.
07/14/2017
by: Home Health Compare
The following is a list of agencies that have achieved 5-star ratings in quality each quarter from July 2015 through July 2017.
07/13/2017
Less than one week before the July 1 compliance date, OSHA officials delayed a new electronic recordkeeping rule that’s being challenged in more than one federal courtroom.
07/12/2017
View a chart to see how agencies have improved by quarter over the past year in value-based purchasing.

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