Home Health Line Breaking News
10/16/2013
The  Provider Enrollment, Chain, and Ownership System (PECOS) enrollment system, which went offline for system maintenance on or about Oct 10 is online and accepting entries; and the PECOS surrogate program, which had been promised but not given an opening date by CMS, launched on Oct. 15.
10/16/2013
The House’s Small Business Subcommittee on Health and Technology recently held a hearing to discuss a provision in the Affordable Care Act (ACA) that defines full-time employees as those who work 30 hours a week rather than 40.
 
10/15/2013
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10/14/2013
CMS has approved Monday, October 21 as a dark day, if necessary for National Government Services (NGS) JK systems, which will also not be available on Saturday, Oct. 19 and Sunday Oct. 20, NGS has announced.
10/10/2013
 A hospice in Pasadena, Md., has learned that a “data incident” occurred after an employee emailed spreadsheets containing patient information to a personal email account to work on them at home, according to Capital Gazette Communications LLC.
10/08/2013
If the lower 48 states expanded the number of seniors receiving home-delivered meals by 1%, 1,722 more Medicaid recipients would avoid living in nursing homes, according to a new study by Brown University.
10/01/2013
Despite the beginning of a partial federal shutdown on Oct. 1, due to Congress’ failure to reach an agreement to keep agencies fully funded, health care providers won’t face a cutoff in Medicare payments, HHS has clarified in its contingency staffing plan.
 
09/30/2013
Federal minimum wage and overtime protections will be extended to almost all home health care workers beginning January 2015, the U.S. Labor Department has announced.
 
 
 
09/30/2013
Seventy-five members of Congress have signed a letter urging CMS to modify the face-to-face requirement for home health care, asking that the requirement be met through the completion and collection of the separate 485 (plan of care) form.
 
09/09/2013
With the midnight, Sept. 30, deadline approaching and no deal to prevent a government shutdown in sight, one thing providers needn’t fear is a cutoff in Medicare payments, HHS makes clear in its contingency staffing plan.
 

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