Home Health Line Breaking News
03/19/2024
The commissions recommendations to Congress also included no payment update for hospice providers.
03/15/2024
The revised State Operations Manual Appendix B adds more 25 pages to the existing 92-page text.
03/15/2024
The Biden administration is angling to make the Home Health Value-Based Purchasing (HHVBP) model permanent. It was one of several initiatives announced in the president’s FY 2025 budget.
03/13/2024
The agency allegedly billed Medicaid for personal care services that were never performed, such as billing for in-home services on days when patients were hospitalized and aides were out of town.
03/09/2024
OIG alleged that VNHS submitted claims to Medicare and Georgia Medicaid for services provided by an unlicensed registered nurse.
03/08/2024
Overall, health care added 67,000 jobs in February, above the average monthly gain of 58,000 over the prior 12 months.
03/05/2024
Since 2021, the model has allowed Medicare Advantage plans to include the hospice benefit in select states in hopes of improving care coordination between MA payors and hospice providers.
02/27/2024
Of 5,839 claims reviewed, 942 were denied.
02/23/2024
Expected to be finalized in the coming weeks, the Ensuring Access to Medicaid Services proposed rule released last April included a requirement that at least 80% of Medicaid payments for personal care, homemaker and home health aide services be spent on compensation for the direct care workforce, as opposed to administrative overhead or profit.
02/22/2024
A federal jury convicted a California man for his role in a scheme to defraud Medicare by billing $2.8 million for hospice services that patients did not need.

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