Home Health Line Breaking News
08/27/2014
CMS will allow acknowledgement testing at any time before the Oct. 1, 2015, ICD-10 deadline, but it instructed Medicare administrative contractors (MACs) to promote it during three specific weeks. Specific dates have been announced.
 
 
08/25/2014
Four months after supplemental medical review contractor (SMRC) StrategicHealthSolutions LLC began examining five claims from every agency nationwide in an effort to create more consistent audits among CMS contractors, it has begun issuing claims denials.
 
08/05/2014
One piece of good news in the latest Medicare trustees’ report is that home health no longer is one of the reasons for a rapidly depleting Medicare’s Part A trust fund. In fact, the fund will remain solvent through 2030, or four years longer than the trustees predicted last year, the report states.
08/05/2014
Recovery auditors (RACs) are going to resume auditing some claims now, rather than waiting for new RAC contracts to be awarded, CMS announced Aug. 4.
 
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.
 
 

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