Home Health Line
11/13/2017
Many items will be eliminated from the OASIS and several others will be added to the assessment as part of CMS’ ongoing efforts to comply with the IMPACT Act.
11/13/2017
The revised Home Health Conditions of Participation (CoPs) provide a new, tighter deadline for supplying patients with copies of their medical records. Agencies only will have, at most, four business days.
11/13/2017
As a direct result of the sunset of the rural add-on provision in home health, nearly 1,800 rural agencies will face average payment reductions of 2.5% in 2018, according to the 2018 final PPS rule.
11/13/2017
One result of the payment changes outlined in the final 2018 PPS rule is a low-utilization payment adjustment (LUPA) rate of $143.40 per visit for skilled nursing in 2018 compared with $141.84 in 2017.
11/13/2017
Now that CMS has finalized its plan to remove one of the current measures from value-based purchasing, it’s even more important for agencies to stand out on the remaining measures.
11/13/2017
The Florida Supreme Court has recently determined that home health marketers can’t poach referral sources from their former employers if they previously signed non-compete agreements.
11/13/2017
by: 2018 PPS final rule; 2017 PPS final rule
The 2018 national per-visit amounts for low-utilization payment adjustment (LUPA) episodes will be slightly higher for all disciplines than the 2017 rates.
11/13/2017
by: Josh Poltilove
HHL has compiled this quick-reference tool to help you evaluate the major provisions of the 2018 final PPS rule.
11/13/2017
The 2018 final PPS rule finalizes changes to 33 OASIS items that will result in the collection of 235 fewer data elements at specific time points within a home health episode. The elimination of the data elements equates to the complete removal of certain items in the OASIS, except where otherwise indicated with asterisks as explained in the footnotes of the table below, according to CMS.

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