Home Health Line Breaking News
10/07/2024
Blanket waivers in impacted states includes relief in completing and submitting the OASIS as well as allowing an initial assessment and to determine patients’ homebound status remotely or by record review.
10/04/2024
Overall, the BLS estimates home health care services include more than 1.79 million jobs, adding 142,500 jobs over the past year.
10/01/2024
The Hospice CARE Act would revise the payment structure to incentivize high-quality care and increase oversight of the industry, including limiting new hospices and increase surveys.
09/28/2024
Healthcare organizations are submitting more prior authorization requests to Medicare Advantage (MA) plans than they once were, and more of their requests are getting denied, according to a recent KFF analysis.
09/27/2024
Medicare only pays the additional amount for administering the COVID-19 vaccine in the home if the sole purpose of the visit is to administer one or more vaccines.
09/24/2024
The 30-minute course is intended for agency administrators, clinical managers/supervisors, quality managers and staff development personnel, according to CMS.
09/23/2024
The home health referral rejection rate has increased significantly — from 49% in 2020 to 71% in 2022.
09/20/2024
Hospice providers will begin using the HOPE instrument in October 2025, replacing the existing Hospice Item Set measure in the Hospice Quality Reporting Program.
09/17/2024
From Data Elements to Quality Measures Cross-Setting provides a high-level overview of how data elements within assessment instruments are used to construct quality measures.
09/17/2024
Results for home health care services shows 231 severe injuries between 2015 and January 2024.

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