Home Health Line Breaking News
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%.
 
 
07/06/2015
CMS accepted 90% of test claims during its final ICD-10 acknowledgment testing week, and no Medicare Fee-For-Service (FFS) claims systems issues were identified, the federal Medicare agency announced July 2.
 
 
07/06/2015
The ICD-10 grace period CMS announced July 6 does not apply to home health agencies.
07/06/2015
Within the proposed 2016 PPS rule released July 6, CMS detailed its plans to move forward with a home health value-based purchasing model in nine states nationwide starting in 2016.
07/06/2015
by: Attorney Mills Fleming with HunterMaclean, Savannah, Ga.
If an RN resides abroad, the following steps must be completed before the nurse may be employed in the United States, according to immigration and health care attorney Mills Fleming with HunterMaclean in Savannah, Ga.
07/01/2015
Home health agencies in Los Angeles, Miami, Detroit and Dallas were among those caught up in a major nationwide health care fraud takedown last month. 
 
 
06/30/2015
Sen. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) has introduced a bill intended to relieve physicians and home health agencies of CMS’s current face-to-face regulations. As introduced June 23 with bipartisan sponsorship, the bill, among other things, would require CMS to develop — in consultation with stakeholders — a standardized form to collect evidence that a beneficiary is eligible for home health services. 
 
 

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