Home Health Line
12/13/2010

Congress seems unlikely to give the industry a holiday gift by postponing the face-to-face encounter requirement, even though the requirement continues to confuse – and trouble – many agency managers.

12/13/2010

Some Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) members think copays would be an effective way to preserve the Medicare program, because they would deter patients from accepting unnecessary home health visits.

12/13/2010

CMS should require concrete evidence of fraud and allow agencies to have a hearing before suspending agencies’ Medicare payments, commenters on a proposed rule say.

12/13/2010

A proposal from the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) would begin a two-year rebasing of home health payment rates two years sooner than called for in the health care reform

12/13/2010

Leading home health lobbyists submitted a letter to CMS on Dec. 7 encouraging the federal agency to fund a telehealth demonstration project that would give agencies a financial bonus for

12/13/2010

Agencies will ring in the new year with a new requirement to submit claims within 12 months to get paid.

12/13/2010

National debt commission supports more immediate home health rebasing. The National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform has recommended an accelerated plan to phase in home health payment cuts first

12/13/2010

New quality data reveal that hospices have room for improving the education they provide families about the patients’ medicines, treatments and symptoms.

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