Home Health Line Breaking News
03/03/2023
Home care will be ‘untenable’ without a rate increase, says chair of the Ohio Council for Home Care and Hospice.
02/27/2023
For all nine measures of care experience examined in the study, family caregivers reported worse care experiences at for-profit hospices than at not-for-profit hospices.
02/23/2023
CMS released an updated version of the Home Health Grouper to account for the code changes set to take effect on April 1, 2023.
02/22/2023
The 77-page toolkit includes four case studies and frequently-asked questions about how to identify, collect, analyze, and use social determinants of health to address healthcare inequities and access issues.
02/20/2023
Home health providers will learn more about an upcoming call regarding PDGM and behavioral adjustments, while hospice providers will get an update on a planned spring forum on the Hospice Quality Reporting Program.
02/16/2023
"This year when we looked at our budget, I cut as much as I could and just went to my board and said, 'How do I not give my staff a 3% raise this year with inflation?"
02/15/2023
A home care agency reportedly employed a home health aide who was excluded from participating in any Federal health care program and provided items or services that were billed to Federal health care programs.
02/11/2023
From January 1 – February 6, 2023, CMS incorrectly returned claims with telehealth services if they didn’t include an in-person visit with the same revenue code (reason code 31869).
02/10/2023
Checking off a requirement mandated through the omnibus spending bill in December, CMS will be hosting a forum to dive deep into the methodology around PDGM and behavioral adjustments.
02/09/2023
The U.S. Justice Department unsealed charges Feb. 7, 2023, against 23 people in alleged fraud schemes to defraud Medicare of more than $61.5 million by paying kickbacks and bribes and billing Medicare for unnecessary medical services that were never provided.

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