Home Health Line Breaking News
12/24/2015
CMS is celebrating Christmas this year by releasing a draft version of its OASIS-C2 data item set for home health, scheduled for implementation Jan. 1, 2017.
12/23/2015
A bipartisan bill cleared by the Senate Finance Committee would augment Medicare administrative law judges with magistrates, a new type of hearing official, and other steps intended to relieve the current backlog of denied claims awaiting ALJ hearings.
12/18/2015
Today CMS released a trove of data on home health utilization, payments and submitted charges by provider, state and home health resource group (HHRG) dubbed the Home Health Agency Utilization and Payment Public Use File (Home Health Agency PUF).
12/17/2015
All agencies in the nine states involved in CMS’ value-based purchasing demonstration, which begins Jan. 1, 2016, should as soon as possible establish a point of contact for the program who will create a user ID that will be used to access the programs’ various online portals.
11/23/2015
The National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC) and its coplaintiffs have asked the U.S. Supreme Court to consider the validity of Labor Department rules that extend Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) protections to about 1.9 million home care workers.
11/20/2015
Only ICD-10 codes will be accepted by the HHCAHPS Survey Data Center for the primary and other diagnosis data variables for the fourth quarter of 2015 and beginning with the October 2015 sample month.
11/17/2015
Medicare will press ahead with a new bundled payment policy for lower extremity joint replacements next year, CMS announced in a final rule issued Nov. 16.
11/12/2015
CMS is seeking public comments on its proposed discharge to community measure that’s mandated as part of the measure development process under the IMPACT Act, which affects home health and other post-acute care settings.
11/10/2015
CMS has issued new guidance to Medicare administrative contractors (MACs) on how to select home health claims for further review after they pull five claims for all agencies for episodes beginning on or after Aug. 1, 2015.
11/03/2015
A federal judge has ruled against the National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC) in its lawsuit battling the face-to-face requirement.

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