Home Health Line Breaking News
02/08/2016
The HHCAHPS Coordination Team has corrected Appendix B, p. B-5, of the HHCAHPS Protocols and Guidelines Manual Version 8.0 to change the field length of each of the ICD-10 “Primary diagnosis” and “Other diagnoses” elements now correctly displays as “7” rather than “5.” 
01/28/2016
CMS on Jan. 28 released its first-ever patient experience of care star ratings for the home health industry.
01/27/2016
Effective July 1, agencies will have to comply with a face-to-face encounter requirement for Medicaid home health care, similar to the requirements for Medicare.
01/21/2016
CMS has released the January 2016 OASIS Q&As on its OASIS User Guides & Training website.
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.

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