Home Health Line Breaking News
11/02/2020
New CMS guidance released Oct. 28 on a future COVID-19 vaccine offered new details for providers on distribution, billing and payment.
10/29/2020
CMS’ 2021 final PPS payment rule will increase payments to HHAs by just 1.9%, or $390M. That’s down from $530M, or a 2.7% increase, that was referenced in the proposed payment rule in June.
10/23/2020
Seasonal influenza activity in the United States remains low as we gear up for the 2020 flu season, according to the CDC’s weekly U.S. influenza surveillance report.
10/23/2020
A new survey by CMS of Medicare beneficiaries found 21% reported needing health care for something other than COVID-19 this summer but were not getting it due to the pandemic.
10/23/2020
The National Association for Home Care & Hospice, the American Health Care Association, the American Hospital Association and the American Medical Association wrote a letter on October 21, 2020, to congressional leaders, "urging them to extend the congressionally-enacted moratorium on the application of the Medicare sequester cuts into 2021 and through the duration of the public health emergency.”
10/19/2020
With Election Day just two weeks away, employers need to make sure they’re providing time off to vote, if it is required under state or local laws.
10/19/2020
U.S. Representative Vern Buchanan, a Republican from Florida, and Senator Susan Collins, a Republican from Maine, wrote letters to CMS administrator Seema Verma about the behavioral assumption rate reduction to home health payments.
10/19/2020
A home health care company and its owners must “pay back $3.1 M to resolve allegations that they falsely billed the state’s Medicaid Program (MassHealth),” according to an October 16, 2020, press release from attorney general Maura Healey.  
10/12/2020
CMS released the new home health cost report forms in a transmittal released on October 2.
10/12/2020
CMS is waiving requirements for large-scale emergency preparedness testing for agencies that have activated their emergency plans during the public health emergency (PHE).

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