Home Health Line Breaking News
12/12/2014
Home health agencies will soon see its performance publicly scored with a 5-star system by CMS starting in 2015 as the federal Medicare agency seeks to adopt star rating systems for consumers across all of its Medicare.gov Compare websites.
 
 
12/09/2014
The final Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (CAHPS) Hospice Survey question set has been approved by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB).
 
 
12/02/2014
In certain circumstances, for some patients, CMS might grant ACOs a waiver that would allow home health agencies to provide care to patients who aren’t homebound.
 
 
12/02/2014
http://homehealthline.decisionhealth.com/Articles/Detail.aspx?id=518682CMS is providing the public with 30 additional days to comment on proposed changes to the home health conditions of participation (CoPs). Agencies will have until 5 p.m. EST Jan. 7, 2015, to comment.
 
 
11/11/2014
Agencies wishing to ensure accurate payment for OASIS-C1/ICD-9 assessments beginning Jan. 1, 2015 will need to make sure their quality managers, educators and clinical directors study and understand that four diagnosis groups will no longer be used in scoring in the PPS Grouper released by CMS Nov. 10.
 
10/31/2014

CMS is standing strong on plans to reduce home health reimbursement by just a fraction and to remove the narrative requirement for physician face-to-face visits. But one major change in the final 2015 PPS rule is that therapy reassessments need to take place every 30 calendar days, rather than every 14 calendar days as proposed in July.

 
10/23/2014
CMS posted a Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (CAHPS) Hospice Survey Vendor Authorization Form on Oct. 22.
 
10/22/2014
Hospice work is a calling as much as it is a job opportunity, and clearly not everyone is cut out for it, says Mary Pistulka, who on Oct. 20 was named 2014 Home Care and Hospice Nurse of the Year by the National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC).
 
 
10/20/2014
CMS is announcing the availability of a new accountable care organization (ACO) initiative to better coordinate care in rural and underserved areas as part of the Affordable Care Act (ACA).
 
 
10/15/2014
Home health agencies nationwide saw a percentage-point improvement in bed transfer, pressure ulcer prevention and improvement in management of oral medications in CMS’ latest release Oct. 9 of Home Health Compare data.
 
 

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