Home Health Line Breaking News
10/24/2013
California recently passed the Home Care Services Consumer Protection Act of 2013, which requires agencies to conduct background checks on workers and list aides in an online registry, according to the New York Times.
 
10/24/2013
CMS announced today that it could delay releasing the CY 2014 Home Health Prospective Payment System Final Rule (CMS-1450-F) for nearly a month. The rule now will be released on or before Nov. 27.
 
10/19/2013
A bill was recently introduced to limit Medicare payment when a home health agency exceeds specific threshold limits on the average number of episodes of care.
10/16/2013
The House’s Small Business Subcommittee on Health and Technology recently held a hearing to discuss a provision in the Affordable Care Act (ACA) that defines full-time employees as those who work 30 hours a week rather than 40.
 
10/15/2013
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10/14/2013
CMS has approved Monday, October 21 as a dark day, if necessary for National Government Services (NGS) JK systems, which will also not be available on Saturday, Oct. 19 and Sunday Oct. 20, NGS has announced.
10/10/2013
 A hospice in Pasadena, Md., has learned that a “data incident” occurred after an employee emailed spreadsheets containing patient information to a personal email account to work on them at home, according to Capital Gazette Communications LLC.
10/08/2013
If the lower 48 states expanded the number of seniors receiving home-delivered meals by 1%, 1,722 more Medicaid recipients would avoid living in nursing homes, according to a new study by Brown University.
10/01/2013
Despite the beginning of a partial federal shutdown on Oct. 1, due to Congress’ failure to reach an agreement to keep agencies fully funded, health care providers won’t face a cutoff in Medicare payments, HHS has clarified in its contingency staffing plan.
 
09/30/2013
Federal minimum wage and overtime protections will be extended to almost all home health care workers beginning January 2015, the U.S. Labor Department has announced.
 
 
 

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