Home Health Line Breaking News
10/19/2015
CMS is establishing new G-codes to differentiate levels of nursing services provided during home health and/or hospice stays. Previously codes didn’t differentiate between RN and LPN services.
10/16/2015
An issue is causing home health final claims spanning Oct. 1, 2015, to incorrectly be rejected/returned to provider (RTP’d), according to Medicare Administrative Contractors (MACs) Palmetto GBA and CGS.
10/15/2015
An issue with National Provider Identifiers (NPIs), which caused home health agencies and hospices nationwide to have problems submitting claims, has been resolved.
10/09/2015
A recent CMS training call about the CAHPS Hospice Survey alerted hospices that survey results won’t be publicly reported for about a year or longer. But hospices still need to send in their data now or they could face financial repercussions.
10/09/2015
Seventy-four agencies earned five stars for the first time in CMS’ second public reporting of its star-rating system, which coincides with the Home Health Compare quality measures refresh.
10/09/2015
A new change request from CMS makes clear that doctors may initial and date amendments and delayed entries into medical documentation. Before doctors only had the option of signing and dating the information, but now they could either sign or initial.
10/08/2015
An issue involving National Provider Identifiers (NPIs) has caused home health agencies and hospices nationwide to have problems submitting claims.
10/06/2015
The U .S. Supreme Court's chief justice has denied an application for stay on the Court of Appeals' ruling involving the companionship exemption.
10/01/2015
The government isn’t going to shut down — at least, not for a while.
10/01/2015
A new document corrects technical errors that appeared in the 2016 final hospice rule.

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