Home Health Line Breaking News
12/20/2018
Less than two weeks before a new version of the OASIS is scheduled to take effect, CMS has released a final guidance manual for the revised assessment.
12/18/2018
CMS posted post-training materials — with answers to knowledge checks — for its Nov. 6 and 7 Home Health Quality Reporting Program Provider Training. 
12/17/2018
A federal judge has ruled that the entirety of the Affordable Care Act aka Obamacare is unconstitutional, though he did not order a remedy and an appeal is already being assembled.
12/16/2018
A Missouri man is facing up to five years in prison and/or fines of up to $250,000 for submitting to Medicaid false timesheets for home health aide work.
12/15/2018
The nationwide recovery auditor (RAC) that handles issues involving home health, hospice and durable medical equipment (DME) recently added an issue involving DME while in hospice.
12/14/2018
HHS’ Office for Civil Rights (OCR) has issued a request for information (RFI) to help it identify provisions of HIPAA privacy and security regulations that should be modified.
12/10/2018
CMS has announced that it its review choice demonstration won't launch as planned in Illinois on Dec. 10.
12/09/2018
CMS will host a two-part webinar 1 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. EST Dec. 13 called “Updates to Public Reporting in Fiscal Year 2019: Hospice Comprehensive Assessment Measure and Data Correction Deadlines.”
12/08/2018
On the Hospice CAHPS survey, the response rate for the public reporting period second quarter of 2016 through the first quarter of 2018 is 33%.
12/08/2018
Hospices scored 83.6% on a new Hospice Item Set (HIS) composite measure that appeared on Hospice Compare as part of the website’s Nov. 30 quarterly refresh.

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