Home Health Line Breaking News
03/03/2015
A newly released report from CMS shows health care providers participating in 25 CMS reporting programs across the country, including home health agencies, have improved performance on quality measures from 2006 to 2013.
 
 
02/26/2015
Agencies will soon have to submit quality data to CMS in a standardized fashion with other post-acute care providers as mandated by the Improving Medicare Post-Acute Care Transformation (IMPACT) Act of 2014.
 
 
02/25/2015
About 81% of claims received during CMS’ first-ever ICD-10 end-to-end testing week were found acceptable by Medicare contractors, CMS announced Feb. 25.
 
 
02/23/2015
Days after some members of a key House subcommittee broached the idea of allowing temporary use of both ICD-9 and ICD-10, CMS said that simply wouldn’t work.
 
 
02/11/2015
The seven health care stakeholders testifying before Congress Feb. 11 about ICD-10 preparedness spoke largely in favor of the new, more specific code set — and said providers will be ready.
 
02/09/2015
In response to industry concerns about the length of the “clinical template” it created to reduce home health claims denials for lack of face-to-face information, CMS posted a reminder on its website Feb. 5 that the five-page form is voluntary.
 
02/09/2015
In response to industry concerns about the length of the “clinical template” it created to reduce home health claims denials for lack of face-to-face information, CMS posted a reminder on its website Feb. 5 that the five-page form is voluntary.
 
02/05/2015
CMS will implement its new 5-Star rating system on Home Health Compare using half-star increments instead of the full-star increments as previously discussed. The system will start in July and be published quarterly thereafter.
 
 
02/02/2015
The Home Health Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (HHCAHPS) website has been revised for authorized users — either a vendor or an agency — to include a “Dashboard” tab, CMS has announced.
 
 
02/02/2015
President Barack Obama’s fiscal 2016 budget calls for 30% of Medicare payments to providers based on delivery of “efficient, high-quality, coordinated health care rather than paying for volume of health care services.”
 
 

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