Home Health Line Breaking News
07/15/2024
CMS is expected to release the final rule no later than the first few days of August. The 2024 final rule was released July 28 last year and the 2023 rule was released July 27 the prior year.
07/11/2024
Mail-only responses are at 23.2% and phone-only responses are at 21.0% in the fourth quarter of 2023. But mixed mode, a mailed survey with a phone follow-up, saw a 28.5% response rate.
07/08/2024
This settlement resolves allegations that agencies provided lease payments and other valuable benefits, including wellness health services, sports tickets and meals, to numerous assisted living facilities and their residents, as well as certain health care providers, in exchange for referrals of Medicare beneficiaries.
07/08/2024
The panel looked at measures for behavioral and mental health, patient experience, pain management and immunization.
07/05/2024
Estimates on the total number of jobs in home health care services fell by 3,500 in June, according to the latest data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
07/03/2024
Effective Oct. 1, coders will now have a way to capture a post-acute encounter for sepsis aftercare with the new code Z51.A (Encounter for sepsis aftercare). 
07/02/2024
CMS will provide information on the proposed rule, the July Care Compare refresh, HHVBP reports and more
06/27/2024
This may include scammers faxing a provider fraudulent requests to get the provider to send patient records in response.
06/26/2024
The reduction in payments includes a permanent 3.6% cut in the national, standardized 30-day period payments as part of behavioral adjustments under PDGM, amounting to a $595 million decrease. It is offset partially by a 2.5% increase in the home health payment update percentage.
06/26/2024
The former owner of a Louisiana hospice was also ordered to pay more than $3.6 million in restitution.

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