Home Health Line Breaking News
01/29/2015

CMS announced Jan. 28 that it is considering developing a voluntary clinical template physicians can complete during face-to-face examinations of Medicare patients.

 
 
01/27/2015
CMS is reporting that some agencies are still experiencing issues with rejected OASIS records in the Assessment Submission and Processing (ASAP) system related to inconsistent or missing data in the Certification And Survey Provider Enhanced Reports (CASPER) Provider Auxiliary Facility table with the national database.
01/27/2015
The Labor Department has appealed federal district court decisions invalidating the department’s rules in favor of overtime compensation for personal care.
 
 
01/14/2015
Even though CMS implemented face-to-face documentation requirement changes for episodes beginning Jan. 1 or later, the federal Medicare agency is still considering delaying those changes.
 
 
01/14/2015
None of the Labor Department’s companionship regulation is valid, according to the latest ruling by a federal judge on a suit challenging the regulation’s requirement for overtime payments to unskilled home support workers.
 
 
01/13/2015
The home health industry won’t have to worry about immediate scrutiny from recovery audit contractors (RACs). A week after CMS announced the one national contractor it chose to perform all RAC reviews for home health, hospice and durable medical equipment (DME), a different RAC has filed a protest.
 
01/09/2015
CMS is reporting that its Assessment Submission and Processing (ASAP) system for agencies to submit OASIS data starting Jan. 1, 2015, is experiencing a problem with the Branch ID.
 
 
01/08/2015
The U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia on Jan. 6 issued an order denying Medicare’s effort to have the National Association for Home Care & Hospice’s (NAHC) lawsuit about the face-to-face requirement dismissed.
 
 
12/31/2014
Connolly LLC will serve as the national recovery audit contractor (RAC) for home health, hospice and durable medical equipment (DME) claim reviews, CMS announced Dec. 30. The announcement marks the official RAC re-start of home health claims reviews.
 
 
12/31/2014
In a second ruling on the Labor Department’s companionship regulation, U.S. District Court Judge Richard Leon in Washington, D.C., stayed Labor’s new definition of companionship services as limited to “fellowship” services, with no more than 20% of the home support worker’s time spent on personal care or housekeeping tasks.
 
 

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