Home Health Line Breaking News
07/20/2015
CMS has selected 141 Medicare-certified hospices to participate in the Medicare Care Choices Model, it announced July 20.
07/20/2015
Agencies can, beginning July 20, access a free tool from quality improvement organization TMF Health Quality Institute that will help them address their risks for overpayment from Medicare, according to the TMF website.
 
 
07/16/2015
Check out your agency’s 5-star rating made available on Home Health Compare July 16.
 
 
07/16/2015
by: CMS
The following agencies received 5 stars, based on a July 16 release of star ratings on Home Health Compare. The CMS data was provided to HHL by Seattle-based National Research Corporation. 
07/15/2015
Medicare administrative contractor CGS recently outlined an ongoing issue related to home health final claims and adjustments within the Fiscal Intermediary Standard System (FISS), as well as two resolved issues that had been denying or rejecting claims incorrectly.
 
 
07/15/2015
by: Palmetto GBA
Among the 2,461 home health claims Medicare administrative contractor Palmetto GBA denied from April through June 2015, the top denial reason remained 5CHG3 — medical review HIPPS code change due to partial denial of therapy. 
 
07/14/2015
The Joint Commission accreditation body will require, as of July 1, 2015, that home health agencies and hospices provide documentation on deemed status surveys of Hospice Quality Reporting Program (HQRP)/Quality Assurance and Performance Improvement (QAPI) reports for the past quarter for an initial survey — or the past year for re-survey.
 
 
07/10/2015
When CMS was creating Table 9 within the 2016 proposed PPS rule, posted July 6 on the Federal Register, “There was a misalignment between the case-mix weights and the payment groups,” the federal Medicare agency has since announced.
 
 
07/09/2015
The second round of quality of patient care 5-star star ratings is scheduled to be published Oct. 8 on the Home Health Compare website. But beware that there is an error with preview reports released in CASPER on June 30, CMS told agencies July 8 during its open door forum.
 
 
07/08/2015
Winning agencies set to fare the best under the proposed 2016 PPS rule are New England (Conn., Mass., R.I., N.H., Vt. and Maine). They will experience a 2.3% increase in Medicare payments compared with 2015, as estimated by CMS. Everywhere else, though, agencies would experience Medicare revenue declines, with Alabama, Mississippi, Kentucky and Tennessee averaging the steepest dip, 2.3%.
 
 

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