Home Health Line
07/18/2018
Agencies may soon be allowed to list remote patient monitoring on their cost reports as an allowable administrative cost.
07/18/2018
Removal of the companionship services exemption for personal care workers created an added challenge to home care agencies providing live-in care. In response, more agencies eliminated the service entirely as of February 2018 when compared to November 2015.
07/18/2018
The removal of the companionship exemption has driven changes in the home care industry.
07/12/2018
A year after outcry from the home health industry caused CMS to step back from proposed plans to create a new payment model, CMS has once again unveiled detailed plans about how it wants to revamp the way agencies are paid.
07/12/2018
The OASIS-D draft guidance manual released July 3 offers agencies valuable clarifications about how to respond to new items.
07/12/2018
Changes to the Home Health Quality Reporting Program outlined in the 2019 proposed PPS rule would contribute to big savings for agencies if finalized, CMS contends.
07/12/2018
Seeking to eliminate what it considers an unnecessary burden, CMS plans to remove its requirement that certifying physicians must estimate in home health recertifications how much longer skilled services will be necessary.
07/12/2018
For the first time in at least a decade, the proposed home health payment rule discusses increasing agencies’ payments.
07/12/2018
With rural add-on payments slated to take a hit in some areas beginning in January, industry experts advise home health agencies to reduce costs associated with clinician travel to provide patient care.
07/12/2018
Agencies won’t get any points for a patient with diabetes when it isn’t the focus of care, as that category was completely gutted in the case-mix table update in the 2019 proposed PPS rule.

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