Home Health Line Breaking News
04/24/2017
You’ll soon have 71 new codes to capture varying severities of non-pressure chronic ulcers if all the new codes proposed in the hospital inpatient PPS rule are accepted.
04/17/2017
by: Home Health Compare
Agencies have — again — taken major strides on many of the Home Health Compare measures included within value-based purchasing, according to data released April 12.
04/12/2017
The number of 5-star agencies in quality of care has increased every quarter since the ratings were first released — and that trend continued when CMS released the latest ratings in April 12.
04/11/2017
Days after deciding to pause its pre-claim review demonstration in Illinois and not expand the demo to Florida on April 1, CMS released 12 Q&As about the demo’s status.
04/01/2017
The U.S. health care system is doing a better job with slowing spending growth and accessibility to care, but still trails behind similar countries, according to a report by the Peterson-Kaiser Health System Tracker.
03/31/2017
Agencies would have until Jan. 13, 2018, to prepare for most of the revised Home Health Conditions of Participation (CoPs) if CMS finalizes a proposed rule released the morning of March 31.
03/31/2017
One day before the home health pre-claim review demonstration was slated to begin in Florida, CMS has decided not to expand the demo there for now. CMS also has decided to pause the demo in Illinois as of April 1, according to a March 31 post on CMS’ website.
03/19/2017
Conduct a brief test to determine caregiver stress/strain. Agencies often focus all their attention on the patient, not realizing the caregiver’s health is vital to the patient’s long-term success. But reversing this trend will help agencies significantly with patient outcomes and HHCAHPS results.
03/16/2017
Medicare payment rates for home health agencies should be reduced by 5% in 2017, and there should be a two-year rebasing of the payment system beginning in 2019.
03/16/2017
Amid the uncertainty in the insurance marketplace, a 55-43 Senate vote on March 13 installed Seema Verma as the new administrator of CMS

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