Home Health Line Breaking News
10/01/2024
The Hospice CARE Act would revise the payment structure to incentivize high-quality care and increase oversight of the industry, including limiting new hospices and increase surveys.
09/28/2024
Healthcare organizations are submitting more prior authorization requests to Medicare Advantage (MA) plans than they once were, and more of their requests are getting denied, according to a recent KFF analysis.
09/27/2024
Medicare only pays the additional amount for administering the COVID-19 vaccine in the home if the sole purpose of the visit is to administer one or more vaccines.
09/24/2024
The 30-minute course is intended for agency administrators, clinical managers/supervisors, quality managers and staff development personnel, according to CMS.
09/23/2024
The home health referral rejection rate has increased significantly — from 49% in 2020 to 71% in 2022.
09/20/2024
Hospice providers will begin using the HOPE instrument in October 2025, replacing the existing Hospice Item Set measure in the Hospice Quality Reporting Program.
09/17/2024
From Data Elements to Quality Measures Cross-Setting provides a high-level overview of how data elements within assessment instruments are used to construct quality measures.
09/17/2024
Results for home health care services shows 231 severe injuries between 2015 and January 2024.
09/12/2024
Coders could see new codes to capture inflammatory breast cancer if a proposal is approved as presented during the September ICD-10 Coordination and Maintenance Committee meeting, held Sept. 10 and 11.
09/09/2024
CMS announced Sept. 5 that it will expand prepayment medical review in Arizona, California, Nevada and Texas “to combat fraud, waste, and abuse under the hospice benefit.”

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