Home Health Line Breaking News
09/19/2017
CMS has granted disaster-related exceptions under certain Medicare quality reporting and value-based purchasing programs to home health agencies, hospices and many other types of providers in areas affected by hurricanes Harvey and Irma.
09/14/2017
A Texas-based home health agency is teaming up with the Red Cross to help senior citizens forced into shelters after Hurricane Harvey.
09/07/2017
The feds' dishonor roll of entities that have sustained a HIPAA breach of 500 individuals or more has topped 2,000 for the first time.
08/30/2017
CMS has begun posting termination notices online for affected providers including home health agencies.
08/28/2017
As Hurricane Harvey hit Texas and the flood waters rose, vulnerable seniors were among those most in need of help.
08/24/2017
The document contains 11 questions and their answers. One Q&A relates to wound items M1311 and M1313 and three related to drug regimen review items M2001, M2003 and M2005.
08/16/2017
Hospice Compare’s launch Aug. 16 confirms that, for the most part, hospices already perform well on the Hospice Item Set (HIS). But there’s still room for improvement on at least one measure — pain assessments.
08/15/2017
CMS has scheduled a webinar from 1:30 p.m. to 3 p.m. EST Sept. 20 to discuss hospice quality reporting.
08/11/2017
by: DecisionHealth staff
Don’t automatically presume a link between two conditions within a combination code in cases when a guideline requires that link to be explicitly documented, the latest version of ICD-10-CM coding rules clarifies.

 
08/10/2017
Bill Dombi has been named interim president of the National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC). This announcement comes following the July 25 passing of president Val Halamandaris.

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