Home Health Line Breaking News
02/28/2019
CMS' training materials for the Hospice Quality Reporting Program (HQRP): Achieving a Full Annual Payment Update (APU) webinar held Jan. 23 are now available.
02/28/2019
Following a recent DecisionHealth webinar about the final interpretive guidelines for the revised Home Health Conditions of Participation (CoPs), agencies asked questions of industry expert Diane Link, owner of Link Healthcare Advantage.
02/24/2019
In a recent MLN Connects post, CMS reminds providers that the new Medicare Beneficiary Identifiers (MBIs) use numbers 0-9 and all uppercase letters except for S, L, O, I, B and Z.
02/24/2019
Noridian Healthcare Solutions, LLC — CMS’ new Supplemental Medical Review Contractor (SMRC) — has announced it is conducting post-payment reviews of claims for general inpatient (GIP) hospice care.
02/23/2019
The average processing time for appeals decided or dismissed in the first quarter of the 2019 fiscal year at the Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) level is 1,302.9 days. That’s the processing time for all appeals, not just home health.
02/21/2019
With Hospice CAHPS data, no scores changed during the latest refresh of Hospice Compare.
02/21/2019
Among the seven Hospice Item Set (HIS) measures posted on Hospice Compare, providers improved the most on “Hospice and palliative care pain assessment” during the February 2019 refresh.
02/17/2019
The hospice quality reporting program’s quarterly update for the fourth quarter of 2018 is now available for providers to download.
02/16/2019
Agencies seeking to be exempt from the HHCAHPS survey for the 2020 annual payment update must submit a participation exemption request form on the HHCAHPS website.
02/15/2019
A new change request from CMS implements the policies of the Patient-Driven Groupings Model (PDGM) as described in the 2019 PPS final rule for home health.

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