Home Health Line Breaking News
06/25/2012

Leading healthcare attorney Robert Markette analyzed the impact of the Supreme Court ruling on home health agencies and answered your questions about the ruling and what he expects to happen next.

06/22/2012

Careful what you put in M2030 (Management of injectable meds) on the OASIS - Medicare's Comprehensive Error Rate Testing (CERT) contractor reduced payment to several agencies after finding they had completed this item incorrectly.

06/19/2012

It's no longer just a home health copay: In its June report to Congress, MedPAC suggests a redesign for Medicare that would increase beneficiary cost-sharing for services.

06/18/2012

Some home health agency owners are in a sweat these days. The reason? Recent notice from their Medicare administrative contractor (MAC) that their 2010 cost report is being audited to provide accurate cost data for rebasing.

06/18/2012

A high-ranking HHS official caused quite a stir when he announced his resignation on Friday.

06/15/2012

In the second round of these awards, CMS dishes out hundreds of millions in grants --but claims they'll save $1.9 billion in health care costs.

06/11/2012

CMS has announced today that your remittance advice will continue in 4010 format for at least another 30 days due to processing issues with the 5010 version of these transactions.

06/07/2012

CMS has issued a new transmittal which outlines the method for choosing and calculating your hospice's aggregate annual cap.

The transmittal updates chapter 9 of the Medicare Benefit Policy Manual.

06/04/2012

Competitive bidding as a way to set Medicare rates for home medical equipment is looking more permanent these days.

The HME industry continues to lobby for a replacement system that would require bids to be binding.

05/30/2012

Two VNAs have become the first home health agencies to be selected as lead providers in a program for non-homebound Medicare patients who are at risk for repeated hospital admissions and emergency room use.

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