Home Health Line Breaking News
08/10/2017
The revised home health conditions of participation (CoPs) have been delayed, but that doesn’t mean agency preparations should be.
08/07/2017
Hospices that received letters from CMS indicating they failed to meet the 2016 calendar year quality reporting requirements must act quickly if they decide to submit reconsideration requests.
08/07/2017
CMS released the 2018 guidance manual for OASIS-C2 on August 4. The new guidance manual, which takes effect, Jan. 1, 2018, clarifies the “one-clinician rule,” among other things.
08/04/2017
CMS will hold a Hospice CAHPS survey vendor training session Sept. 27. Although the event is attended for survey vendors, subcontractors and other organizations involved in administering the survey, providers are welcome.
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.

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