Home Health Line
02/22/2016
CMS has issued a final 60-day overpayment rule, formally called Reporting and Returning of Overpayments.
02/22/2016
Agencies taking part in CMS’ value-based purchasing demonstration could require up to a week each quarter, particularly in the demonstration’s beginning stages, to collect, organize and submit data for the three new measures in the program.
02/22/2016
New data show CMS is following through on its plan to issue civil monetary penalties to agencies. It has collected about $750,000 in civil monetary penalties issued in 2015.
02/22/2016
Should Medicare Advantage plans be required to offer their enrollees hospice care? The Senate Finance Committee posed that question in a recent bipartisan paper on chronic care options that could be the basis for future legislation.
02/22/2016
Before you hire your next caregiver, you might want to consider spending an extra hour or so completing paperwork that could earn your agency, on average, a couple thousand dollars in federal tax credits.
02/22/2016
CMS is accepting nominations for the IMPACT Act Technical Expert Panel (TEP). The panel will develop and maintain standardized patient assessment data.
02/22/2016
The most common condition-level deficiencies continue to involve acceptance of patients, plan of care and medical supervision. G0156 was cited 129 times in 2015, 50 fewer times than in 2014.

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