Home Health Line Breaking News
06/02/2015
CMS’ second-ever ICD-10 end-to-end testing week did not identify any issues with home health claims, and the home health problem discovered during January’s testing week was indeed fixed.
 
 
06/01/2015
The nationwide review of every home health agency’s face-to-face documentation has yielded a denial rate of 49.2%.
 
 
05/28/2015
CMS is calling on stakeholders and experts to apply by June 1 and contribute direction and thoughtful input as its contractors RTI International and Abt Associates develop potentially avoidable readmission measures in alignment with the Improving Post-Acute Care Transformation (IMPACT) Act of 2014.
 
 
05/15/2015
The U.S. Department of Labor may be proposing to raise the minimum salary requirements for applying overtime exemptions for ‘professional’ and ‘executive’ personnel and to tighten the standards for deciding whether an employee is professional or executive, according to the National Association for Home Care & Hospice.
 
 
05/14/2015
Oral arguments are slated for Aug. 6 in the lawsuit NAHC filed challenging the original face-to-face requirement for a referring physician narrative.
 
 
05/08/2015
Agencies still have a chance to participate in CMS’ third and final end-to-end testing week, which is slated for July 20-24.
 
 
05/07/2015
CMS will add five Home Health Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (HHCAHPS) measures to its star ratings of home health agencies that will be available to view by the public on the Home Health Compare website in January 2016.
 
 
05/06/2015
Medicare’s hospice payments, adjusted for inflation and other factors, would rise an estimated 1.3% in 2016, according to the proposed hospice payment rule posted April 30.
 
 
05/06/2015
Medicare’s hospice payments, adjusted for inflation and other factors, would rise an estimated 1.3% in 2016, according to the proposed hospice payment rule posted April 30.
 
 
05/05/2015
A CMS forum about the voluntary clinical templates it’s proposing for physicians to complete during face-to-face examinations of Medicare patients has been rescheduled for 2:30 p.m. EST May 20.
 

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