Home Health Line Breaking News
04/30/2021
The Department of Health and Human Services has released a new toolkit to help organizations educate older adults on the COVID-19 vaccines and basic prevention measures around the pandemic.
04/30/2021
Agencies and industry advocates are lobbying for action on the new version of the Home Health Emergency Access to Telehealth (HEAT) Act, introduced in the U.S. Senate on April 22.
04/30/2021
CMS has implemented a change in the collection of accelerated and advanced payments to begin collections on those funds not repaid across affiliated providers within the same taxpayer identification number (TIN) and also across workloads within a single organization.
04/28/2021
CMS’ proposed update to the ICD-10 diagnosis codes does not include U09.9 (Post COVID-19 condition, unspecified). This new code that would capture post COVID-19 conditions or cases when a patient continues to have lingering symptoms after the infection is gone was proposed during the virtual March 10 ICD-10-CM Coordination and Maintenance Committee meeting for an Oct. 1 implementation date.
04/28/2021
CMS’ proposed update to the ICD-10 diagnosis codes does not include U09.9 (Post COVID-19 condition, unspecified). This new code that would capture post COVID-19 conditions or cases when a patient continues to have lingering symptoms after the infection is gone was proposed during the virtual March 10 ICD-10-CM Coordination and Maintenance Committee meeting for an Oct. 1 implementation date.
04/23/2021
A home health care provider in Tennessee recently paid $358,675 in back wages to resolve overtime violations, according to the U.S. Department of Labor
04/23/2021
CMS recently updated home health agencies about changes they can expect this summer on the Care Compare site, along with additional training planned around the OASIS-E delay.
04/23/2021
National Government Services (NGS) has updated home health providers following a RAP-related system error impacting Low-Utilization Payment Adjustment (LUPA) claims.
04/20/2021
CMS answers questions about CARES Act provisions and GG items in the recently released OASIS Q&As.
04/20/2021
CMS answers questions about CARES Act provisions and GG items in the recently released OASIS Q&As.

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