Home Health Line Breaking News
01/21/2016
CMS' next home health, hospice & DME open door forum is scheduled for 2 p.m. to 3 p.m. EST Jan. 27.
 
01/19/2016
The HHCAHPS Data Submission Tool will be unavailable for about two weeks beginning Jan. 25 as the HHCAHPS Coordination Team transitions the tool to accept ICD-10 codes.
01/15/2016
CMS will make interim Quality Assessment Only (QAO) data available through CASPER reports that show agency performance against the QAO metric.
01/15/2016

Medicare Administrative Contractor (MAC) Palmetto GBA announced Jan. 14 that home health claims with episodes spanning Jan. 1, 2016, are being returned to the provider (RTP'd) with reason code 32402 and 32403.

01/11/2016
CMS has tweaked the proposed electronic clinical template it created for doctors to use when documenting face-to-face encounters.
01/08/2016
Agencies should be aware that the Quality Improvement and Evaluation System (QIES) will be down from 8 p.m. EST March 16 to 11:59 p.m. March 21.
01/05/2016
Medicare Administrative Contractor (MAC) CGS has warned home health agencies that "it is likely" than more than five claims for many agencies will be caught up in CMS' ongoing probe-and-educate review.
01/04/2016

CMS has recently posted frequently asked questions on its home health value based purchasing site.

12/28/2015
Make sure your billing staff know CMS has issued a change request to include influenza virus vaccine CPT code 90630 (Influenza virus vaccine, quadrivalent (IIV4), split virus, preservative free, for intradermal use) for claims with dates of service on or after Aug. 1, 2015.
12/24/2015

A Zone Program Integrity Contractor (ZPIC) edit resulted in the incorrect denials of some claims and line items, Medicare Administrative Contractor Palmetto GBA recently discovered.

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