Home Health Line
09/16/2016
Review and revise the election statement your hospice provides patients to make clear the care you offer is palliative and that by signing the statement, the patient is waiving the right to receive certain Medicare services.
09/12/2016
by: CMS
The total cost for agencies unaffiliated with The Joint Commission to prepare for the emergency preparedness rule is $6,380, while the total cost for affiliated agencies will be $4,990, CMS says
09/07/2016
Read the judge's recent opinion and order in the Jimmo v. Sebelius case.
09/06/2016
by: Center for Medicare Advocacy
View the FAQs the Center for Medicare Advocacy created about maintenance therapy.
09/06/2016
by: CMS
View the following fact sheet about the Jimmo case.
09/05/2016
Medicare savings achieved so far by the Independence at Home demonstration have attracted Congressional support for legislation to make the demo’s experimental use of house calls teams to treat chronically ill seniors a permanent Medicare benefit.
09/02/2016
The following are additional pre-claim review questions posed to consultants Arlene Maxim and Rebecca Friedman Zuber.
09/02/2016
Following a recent DecisionHealth webinar about the pre-claim review, HHL asked questions to consultants Arlene Maxim and Rebecca Friedman Zuber. Here are their answers.
09/01/2016
The HHS Office for Civil Rights (OCR), right on the heels of its recent clarification that providers need to treat ransomware attacks as potential breaches of HIPAA, has advised agencies and other entities to assess whether they’re capable of responding to a cybersecurity incident.
08/24/2016
by: CMS
The figures below are the spending and expenditures for the second year of the Independence at Home demonstration. Note that the Year 2 spending target and expenditures are on a per-beneficiary, per month basis.

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