Home Health Line Breaking News
05/07/2015
CMS will add five Home Health Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (HHCAHPS) measures to its star ratings of home health agencies that will be available to view by the public on the Home Health Compare website in January 2016.
 
 
05/06/2015
Medicare’s hospice payments, adjusted for inflation and other factors, would rise an estimated 1.3% in 2016, according to the proposed hospice payment rule posted April 30.
 
 
05/06/2015
Medicare’s hospice payments, adjusted for inflation and other factors, would rise an estimated 1.3% in 2016, according to the proposed hospice payment rule posted April 30.
 
 
05/05/2015
A CMS forum about the voluntary clinical templates it’s proposing for physicians to complete during face-to-face examinations of Medicare patients has been rescheduled for 2:30 p.m. EST May 20.
 
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.
 
 

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