Home Health Line Breaking News
04/24/2015
Do your Home Health Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (HHCAHPS) results published on Home Health Compare sometimes not match results HHCAHPS vendor survey results? Ever wonder why?
 
 
04/17/2015
Home health agencies nationwide saw a percentage-point improvement in pneumococcal vaccine ever received, diabetic foot care and education and improvement in management or oral medications for CMS’ latest release April 16 of Home Health Compare data.
 
 
04/15/2015
The Senate has endorsed the House bill to scrap the sustainable growth rate (SGR) formula used to set physicians’ Medicare rates.  Not included in the final bill  which President Barack Obama intends to sign into law  is a further one-year delay in use of ICD-10 codes. As a result, providers must begin use of the new codes on Oct. 1, 2015, as currently required.
 
 
04/13/2015
Providers are getting better at transmitting claims with ICD-10 codes on them, and Medicare administrative contractors are getting better at processing them, CMS concluded after the latest round of acknowledgement testing last month.
 
04/13/2015
Home care workers in Washington D.C. have filed a lawsuit in D.C. Superior Court against four agencies, claiming that they have been cheated out of overtime and sick wages over a period of three years.
 
 
04/03/2015
CMS is seeking the Office of Management and Budget’s (OMBs) approval for home health agencies to input ICD-10 codes into the OASIS-C1 data set.
 
 
03/31/2015
CMS’s final open door forum to discuss its proposed electronic and paper clinical templates has been rescheduled to 1:30 p.m. EST April 28.
 
 
03/27/2015
Despite the U.S. House's resounding vote to dash the sustainable growth rate (SGR), the Senate adjourned for a scheduled recess March 27 without taking up the bill, leaving physicians wondering whether the axe will fall at the end of the month.
 
 
03/27/2015
Beginning in July, agencies will have access to a free tool from quality improvement organization TMF Health Quality Institute that will help them address their risks for overpayment from Medicare, according to a report on the TMF website.
 
 
03/24/2015
During a recent open door forum, CMS provided inaccurate information to home health agencies regarding their role in providing documentation to support certification for home health services, the federal Medicare agency acknowledged March 23.
 
 

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