Home Health Line
06/24/2021
A recent Home Health Value-Based Purchasing (HHVBP) report might be the ammo that CMS needs to move forward with plans to expand the demonstration nationwide in the near future.
06/24/2021
The comment period for the proposed 2022 hospice payment rule has ended, and the 55 comments included  mixed feelings on a variety of proposals including the proposed star rating system, the election addendum and the permanent adoption of two blanket waivers introduced during the public health emergency.
06/24/2021
Nita Beecher, an attorney with FortneyScott in Washington, D.C., says she expects employers will be happy that they will continue to have an alternative for health coverage for nonemployees.
06/24/2021
The Colorado Supreme Court has cleared up a longstanding unresolved question about when employers need to pay out accrued but unused vacation time.
06/24/2021
Scores for the five Home Health Care Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Provider Systems (HHCAHPS)-based measures have remained stable over time in HHVBP states versus non.
06/17/2021
Agencies will likely face new compliance hurdles under post-payment review as Medicare Administrative Contractors (MACs) begin analyzing claims during the pandemic.
06/17/2021
As home health and hospice marketers are finally getting in to see referral partners after more than a year of remote marketing it’s a perfect time to reflect and prepare.
06/17/2021
CMS will pay more money to Medicare providers for administering the COVID-19 vaccine in the home, beginning with vaccines administered on June 8, 2021.
06/17/2021
Improving your patients’ dyspnea may be the perfect quality target now because there has been an increase in patients who experience shortness of breath due to COVID-19, and it can also impact home health payments through Care Compare, 5 Star Ratings and Home Health Value-Based Purchasing.
06/17/2021
Unless specifically documented by a provider, coders should not assume the presence of a secondary (acquired) hypercoagulable state in patients with atrial fibrillation, Coding Clinic states in the Q2 2021 Coding Clinic guidance update.

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