Home Health Line Breaking News
11/10/2024
To avoid liability, agencies need to routinely check the List of Excluded Individuals/Entitites to ensure that new hires and current employees are not on it.
11/05/2024
Home health advocates note the national rate increase of 0.5% is far from enough to address rising costs, and the payment cut relief offered by CMS this year just pushes the rest of the payment cut down the road for future claw backs and deeper payment cuts.
11/05/2024
CMS released an updated version of the Home Health Grouper to account for changes coming to high and low comorbidity adjustments, set to take effect Jan. 1, 2025.
11/03/2024
The KFF report noted that, compared with registered nurses, higher percentages of aides and LPNs are younger, Black or Hispanic, low wage and covered by Medicaid or uninsured.
11/02/2024
A Missouri woman has been indicted by a federal grand jury on accusations she defrauded the state’s Medicaid program out of more than $3 million over more than a decade.
11/01/2024
The home health industry received a surprise third reprieve from payment cuts expected in 2025 with a 0.5% aggregate pay increase set in the Home Health Prospective Payment System final rule released late Friday, Nov. 1. 
11/01/2024
The home health industry received a surprise third reprieve from payment cuts expected in 2025 with a 0.5% aggregate pay increase set in the Home Health Prospective Payment System final rule released late Friday, Nov. 1. 
10/29/2024
In June, CMS proposed a 1.7% cut to the national standardized 30-day period payment rate in 2025.
10/25/2024
In order to request a hearing by an ALJ, the amount remaining in controversy must meet the threshold of $190 beginning in January. That is the first increase since 2021.
10/23/2024
The most notable change came in Discharge to Community, dropping from 76.6% in 2022 to 76.1% last year.

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