Home Health Line Breaking News
12/23/2014
Home health agencies and their vendors that are using an XML format as they switch to the OASIS Assessment Submission and Processing (ASAP) system will need to upload a new grouper from CMS’ website. CMS uploaded the new grouper to its website Dec. 22.
 
12/23/2014
In a partial victory for private duty agencies, a federal judge has ruled that the Labor Department misinterpreted the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) with its companionship regulation, which effectively requires providers of companionship and live-in domestic services to pay overtime when their employees work more than 40 hours a week.
 
12/23/2014
The U.S. Congress has agreed that CMS, within its 2016 budget request, should “quantify and explain how the policy directing physicians to conduct face-to-face certifications for home health care has prevented fraud, increased access to health care and impacted costs to the Medicare and Medicaid programs.”
 
 
12/16/2014
CMS has provided doctors with several examples to use within their documentation to justify a patient’s homebound status and need for skilled care.
 
 
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.

 

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