Home Health Line Breaking News
05/03/2012

On Wednesday Big Four company Almost Family released its first quarter financial results, which were as good as could be expected considering the current reimbursement drought, the company said.

05/02/2012

The Department of Justice today announced another major fraud bust, with a total of 107 individiuals charged in six cities around the country.

Home health agencies were named as participants in multiple fraud schemes in Miami, Detroit and Houston.

05/01/2012

The federal government will make more money available for states to fund home- and community-based services (HCBS), CMS announced in two separate rules published May 1.

04/25/2012

It appears providers will have no new diagnosis code changes to contend with next year.

CMS and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) are officially proposing no changes to the ICD-9-CM or ICD-10-CM code sets for 2013.

04/19/2012

CMS has released the formula it used to adjust the publicly reported patient satisfaction data on Home Health Compare.

The document shows CMS considered factors such as patients' average age, education and diagnoses.

04/18/2012

Another round of competitive bidding to set Medicare’s HME rates is coming to the nine markets where bidding was conducted for the first time three years ago, CMS says in an April 17 announcement.

04/16/2012

DecisionHealth's Laura Evans reports live from the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) ICD-10 Summit in Baltimore.

04/11/2012

CMS has awarded a zone program integrity contractor (ZPIC) contract to Cahaba Safeguard.

The Birmingham, Ala.-based company will be responsible for ZPIC work in Zone 3.

04/09/2012

CMS today released a proposed rule that would delay implementation of the ICD-10 code set until Oct. 1, 2014.

That puts the new compliance date exactly one year from the previous date.

04/06/2012

A total of 741 agencies billing to Palmetto GBA are currently on medical review, the Medicare Administrative Contractor (MAC) has disclosed.

Illinois, Ohio and Texas have the highest number of agencies on review.

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