Home Health Line Breaking News
05/05/2017
The American Health Care Act (AHCA) passed in the House of Representatives, 217-213, on May 4 after a dramatic late push that changed key votes.
05/01/2017
Make sure patients have an incentive spirometer and know how to use the device. 
05/01/2017
Agencies have begun receiving denials stemming from a requirement that took effect in April. In many cases, those providers are surprised by what’s triggering the denials.
04/27/2017
Medicare’s hospice payments, adjusted for inflation and other factors, would rise an estimated 1% in 2018, according to the proposed hospice payment rule posted April 27.
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.

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