Home Health Line Breaking News
08/19/2015

Agencies should be aware that a set of Public Reporting Provider Preview Reports for Home Health Compare publication on Oct. 8, which was distributed to providers’ CASPER shared folders, contains incorrect data.

 
08/14/2015
CMS on Aug. 12 posted what it hopes will be a final version for the proposed electronic clinical template it created for doctors to use when documenting face-to-face encounters. 
 
 
 
08/13/2015
Home health agencies will be able to obtain an HHCAHPS preview report next month that will, for the first time, include a dry run of HHCAHPS Star Ratings.
 
 
08/12/2015
CMS is directing Medicare administrative contractors (MACs) to instruct hospices to remove or omit from their claims certain oral anti-cancer and anti-emetic drugs until Jan. 1.
 
 
08/06/2015
A U.S. District Court judge listened to oral arguments Aug. 6 in the National Association for Home Care & Hospice’s (NAHC) lawsuit battling the face-to-face requirement.
 
08/03/2015
CMS will move forward with restructuring the way it pays hospices, resulting in the first major payment change in more than 30 years.
 
08/03/2015
The correction CMS has made to Table 9 within the 2016 proposed PPS home health rule was posted on the Federal Register’s website Aug. 3. 
 
 
 
 
08/03/2015
Medicare administrative contractors’ local coverage determinations (LCDs) with ICD-10 codes are available for you to review on the CMS coverage database website. You’ll need to know what codes MACs require for billing in ICD-10.
07/30/2015
 Important note about your Coding Center: If you’re using Internet Explorer 8 – you’re using an outdated browser. You must update your Internet Explorer 8 now, or your Home Health Coding Center will NOT function appropriately once upgrades are made on Aug. 17, 2015.
07/28/2015
Home health agencies and other employers that fail to document a “recordable” workplace injury or illness could potentially be cited by the Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA) up to five years after the incident, if a new proposal from OSHA is finalized.
 
 

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