Home Health Line Breaking News
06/10/2015
Congress appears poised to let the ICD-10 code set take effect Oct. 1, but at least two new bills would require CMS to enact a grace period for providers on or after the effective date.
 
 
06/09/2015
Agencies’ payments may change as a result of two corrections CMS is making the 2015 Home Health Pricer program.
06/09/2015
A recent MLN Matters article outlined several websites that agencies and other providers can use to help them in submitting correct ICD-10 codes to Medicare.
06/04/2015
CMS posted the latest version of the Hospice Item Set (HIS) to its website June 2.
 
 
06/03/2015
The Senate Finance Committee has approved a bill aimed at reducing the backlog of nearly 900,000 Medicare claims now awaiting administrative law judge (ALJ) hearings. 
 
 
06/02/2015
Don’t forget to remind your data vendors of the changes in file structures CMS has made to accommodate the use of ICD-10 diagnosis codes submitted with the April 21, 2016 data submission.
 
 
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.
 
 

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