Home Health Line Breaking News
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.

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.

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