Home Health Line Breaking News
06/11/2024
The BLS estimates home health care services has added 30,000 more jobs this spring than employers added in spring 2023.
06/10/2024
Industry experts encourage providers to use model examples of compliant NOEs to avoid denials.
06/07/2024
According to an indictment unsealed June 6, three of the defendants allegedly operated a series of sham hospice companies.
06/03/2024
Of 27 probes completed, 17 providers were found non-compliant and advanced to the next round.
06/02/2024
With new regulations around alternatives to social workers in the hospice interdisciplinary group (IDG), CMS has offered new guidance to state surveyors in Appendix M.
05/31/2024
The company is accused of not paying its employees overtime wages and failing to accurately record employees’ hours worked.
05/28/2024
These cases accounted for 40% of incidents in the home care setting, according to the 2023 Sentinel Event Data Annual Report, released May 15.
05/23/2024
The conviction on 23 counts related to overbilling for hospice patients for expensive General Inpatient services and for multiple counts related to manipulating Medicare billing codes despite such services being medically unnecessary or despite their inclusion in the daily hospice benefit his agency was already paid for.  
05/22/2024
The updated guidance addresses agencies whose policies require an RN to perform the non-billable nursing assessment for therapy-only cases. 
05/21/2024
CMS will update home health agencies on new claim coding requirements and upcoming Home Health Value-Based Purchasing (HHVBP) resources.

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