Home Health Line Breaking News
04/20/2019
by: Post-Acute Advisor
The Department of Labor has published three Notices of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) regarding the minimum salary requirement for an employee to qualify for overtime, which forms of payment can be included and excluded in the “time and one-half” calculation when determining workers’ overtime rates, and clarifications of and revisions to the responsibilities of employers and joint employers to employees in joint employer arrangements.
04/20/2019
Medicare Administrative Contractor (MAC) CGS’ recently posted video from its New Medicare Card Transition Ask-the-Contractor teleconference (ACT).
04/20/2019
CMS in its latest quarterly OASIS Q&As provided agencies with additional clarity about GG0170P (Mobility, Picking up object).
04/19/2019
The hospice industry is expected to receive about $540 million in increased payments in 2020, according to CMS’ proposed hospice payment rule posted April 19 on the Federal Register.
04/15/2019
The April release includes 15 questions and answers, 14 of which deal with items new to OASIS-D.
04/14/2019
Agencies eligible for an exemption from participating in the HHCAHPS Survey should note that the Participation Exemption Request (PER) form for the 2021 annual payment update is now available.
04/13/2019
The Quality Improvement and Evaluation System (QIES), Certification and Survey Provider Enhanced Reports (CASPER) and Automated Survey Processing Environment (ASPEN) are undergoing modernizing enhancements.
04/13/2019
Medicare Administrative Contractor Palmetto GBA has posted Q&As from its recent teleconference on targeted probe-and-educate (TPE) reviews.
04/06/2019
Only half of a new hospice measure will be publicly reported as planned this summer, while the other half isn’t quite ready for prime time.
04/06/2019
CMS revised the HHCAHPS’ Spanish version. 

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