Home Health Line Breaking News
02/11/2023
From January 1 – February 6, 2023, CMS incorrectly returned claims with telehealth services if they didn’t include an in-person visit with the same revenue code (reason code 31869).
02/10/2023
Checking off a requirement mandated through the omnibus spending bill in December, CMS will be hosting a forum to dive deep into the methodology around PDGM and behavioral adjustments.
02/09/2023
The U.S. Justice Department unsealed charges Feb. 7, 2023, against 23 people in alleged fraud schemes to defraud Medicare of more than $61.5 million by paying kickbacks and bribes and billing Medicare for unnecessary medical services that were never provided.
02/06/2023
"Some of these individuals are not familiar with basic Medicare coverage or billing requirements,” according to the MACs.
02/03/2023
Home health care services added 6,400 jobs in January, pacing ahead of the 6,125 jobs home health averaged per month in 2022.
01/31/2023
The COVID-19 public health emergency (PHE) is expected to be extended one more time to May 11, according to a statement by the White House on Monday, Jan. 30, 2023.
01/30/2023
The Better Care Better Jobs Act would increase payment rates to promote recruitment and retention of direct care workers, increase wages and develop and update training opportunities, according to supporters.
01/30/2023
Revisions to Appendix M and complementary revisions to the CMS Hospice Basic Surveyor Training will equip surveyors from all surveying entities to focus on the quality of care and facilitate consistency, according to CMS.
01/30/2023
RCD does not include a separate appeal process for a non-affirmed pre-claim review decision, according to Palmetto.
01/23/2023
Agencies soon could see more automated rejections as CMS updates its claims processing system to correct a pandemic-era blind spot that was requiring manual review by MACs.

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