Home Health Line Breaking News
07/29/2014
Kindred Healthcare is continuing to pursue purchasing Gentiva Health Services, but it’s dropping its offer buy 14.9% of the outstanding shares of Gentiva for $16 per share in cash.
 
 
07/29/2014
CMS has extended its moratoria on new home health agencies and new branches of existing home health agencies by six months in six metropolitan areas, CMS announced July 29.
 
07/18/2014
A bill recently filed in the U.S. House would delay, for one year, employer mandate provisions in the Affordable Care Act for large home health agencies.
 
 
07/18/2014
In its latest guidance about Part D medication, CMS on Friday removed many drugs from the list of medications requiring preauthorization for hospice beneficiaries.
 
 
 
07/15/2014
The U.S. Supreme Court’s June 30 ruling that Illinois home care workers can’t be forced financially to support a union they don’t want to join could ultimately have far-reaching repercussions for home care workers in several states.
 
 
07/11/2014
Agencies now have more details about how CMS would like them to respond to revised OASIS-C1 items including falls risk, worsening in pressure ulcer status and plan-of-care synopsis items.
 
 
07/01/2014
Home health reimbursement would drop by a fraction, but agencies would gain considerable face-to-face relief under the PPS rule CMS is proposing for calendar year 2015.
06/25/2014
Two U.S. lawmakers have asked HHS Secretary Sylvia Matthews Burwell to “explore options to assist Medicaid dependent home and community-based providers” in fulfilling the employer requirements of the Affordable Care Act.
 
 
06/19/2014
CMS posted its draft version of the interim OASIS-C1/ICD-9 item set for the first time on June 17. The changes pertain to coding items and time points when OASIS assessment need to be completed, and these changes were made to accommodate the ICD-10 delay until October 1, 2015.
 
 
06/06/2014
The National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC) filed a federal lawsuit June 5 as part of its efforts to combat face-to-face regulations. The face-to-face lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., claims CMS violated Medicare law.
 
 

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