Home Health Line Breaking News
03/23/2015
After listening to industry comments on its 5-Star rating system for home health, CMS has removed the process measure “Pneumococcal Vaccine Ever Received” from the rating system. It plans to introduce patient experience-of-care measures later this year.
 
 
03/20/2015
CMS and its contractors are working with the Fiscal Intermediary Standard System (FISS) to resolve an issue that is causing more than 1,000 home health claims and adjustments to have possibly been denied improperly.
 
 
03/19/2015
An issue involving home health claims, discovered during ICD-10’s first-ever end-to-end testing week, has been addressed.
 
 
03/13/2015
The Medicare profit margins enjoyed by home health agencies continue to justify a process of rebasing payments, starting with a 4-percent reduction in payments, the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) concludes in its latest annual report to Congress on Medicare reimbursement. 
 
 
03/11/2015
The House Ways and Means Committee has endorsed a bipartisan bill that would require agencies to obtain a minimum of $50,000 in surety bond coverage, similar to surety bonds that have been required of home medical equipment (HME) suppliers since 2009.
03/03/2015
A newly released report from CMS shows health care providers participating in 25 CMS reporting programs across the country, including home health agencies, have improved performance on quality measures from 2006 to 2013.
 
 
02/26/2015
Agencies will soon have to submit quality data to CMS in a standardized fashion with other post-acute care providers as mandated by the Improving Medicare Post-Acute Care Transformation (IMPACT) Act of 2014.
 
 
02/25/2015
About 81% of claims received during CMS’ first-ever ICD-10 end-to-end testing week were found acceptable by Medicare contractors, CMS announced Feb. 25.
 
 
02/23/2015
Days after some members of a key House subcommittee broached the idea of allowing temporary use of both ICD-9 and ICD-10, CMS said that simply wouldn’t work.
 
 
02/11/2015
The seven health care stakeholders testifying before Congress Feb. 11 about ICD-10 preparedness spoke largely in favor of the new, more specific code set — and said providers will be ready.
 

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