Home Health Line
11/07/2011
CMS has reduced the sting of its 2012 PPS changes with a final rule that will lower Medicare’s home health payments by less than originally proposed.
11/07/2011
CMS’ final 2012 PPS rule has retained its initial proposal to pay less for high-therapy episodes and more for low therapy utilization. But the rates of these case-mix changes have
11/07/2011
CMS has finalized a proposed change to the face-to-face encounter requirement that it believes will allow agencies more flexibility in obtaining the required documentation.
11/07/2011

CMS will remove two hypertension codes from the case-mix system beginning in January, according to the 2012 final rule.

11/07/2011
The 2012 final rule officially amends the therapy reassessment requirement to state that only Medicare-covered visits are included in the ongoing therapy visit count.
11/07/2011
Agencies won’t get a break on the reporting requirement for 2012. CMS is moving forward with cutting payments by 2% for those agencies that didn’t meet the requirement for Home
11/07/2011
Physicians’ medical records can serve as face-to-face encounter documentation if they contain all the required information, CMS reiterates in the final rule.
11/07/2011

HHL has boiled down the 235-page final rule into a quick reference tool to help you determine the impact of each change on your agency. For each change in the rule, this tool provides the section of the rule which contains it, as well as the proposed version of the change for a side-by-side comparison.

11/07/2011
Agencies in Alabama, Kentucky, Mississippi and Tennessee will feel the biggest impact from the final rule’s policies with an average payment decrease of 4.78%.
11/07/2011
In the final 2012 PPS rule, CMS for the first time shares national data based on the assignment of G codes for therapy visits and confirms that it will use

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