Home Health Line
03/22/2018
A new transmittal from CMS details how rural add-on payments to home health agencies will be processed in 2018.
03/16/2018
by: Eileen Maguire
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03/13/2018
The window is closing — and in some cases has closed — for agencies to take advantage of a settlement option for a low volume of pending appeals at the third and/or fourth levels of appeal.
03/01/2018
CMS on Feb. 5 successfully installed a fix to an issue that had been triggering hospice notices of election (NOE) to return to providers for correction.
02/26/2018
Hospices nationwide earned an average score of 93.5% or higher on six of the seven HIS measures, according to the Feb. 21 refresh of Hospice Compare.
02/20/2018
CMS will hold a home health, hospice and durable medical equipment (DME) open door forum 2 p.m. EST Feb 28.
02/08/2018
Home health agencies and other providers with a low volume of pending appeals at the administrative law judge (ALJ) level should register for a CMS call 1:30 to 3 p.m. EST Feb. 13. Attendees will learn more about a new settlement option now available.
01/30/2018
Agencies submitting claims under a waiver authorized in response to recent hurricane and wildfire emergency events no longer will be at risk to have claims returned to provider (RTP’d) in error because of a failure to match the claim with a corresponding OASIS.
01/26/2018
CMS officials told surveyors that the revised CoPs list several new definitions including branch office, subunits, representative and verbal order.
01/24/2018
The following is a list of the 34 home health agencies that have achieved 5-star ratings in quality each quarter from July 2015 through January 2018.

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