Home Health Line
05/25/2015
The U.S. Department of Labor may be proposing to raise the minimum salary requirements for applying overtime exemptions for ‘professional’ and ‘executive’ personnel and to tighten the standards for deciding whether an employee is professional or executive, according to the National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC).
 
05/25/2015
by: CMS
L543 (Plan of care) and L545 (Content of the plan of care) remained the top two deficiencies in the 2014 fiscal year, according to CMS data provided to the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization. There were 4,237 providers last year, and about 2% were cited due to issues with L543.
 
05/18/2015
If your agency is planning on full or partial outsourcing due to ICD-10’s Oct. 1 implementation, now is the time to start the search for accurate and speedy outside coders.
 
05/18/2015
Agencies should look to spend about a quarter of their overall IT budget on servers and networking equipment.
 
05/18/2015
CMS will add five Home Health Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (HHCAHPS) measures to its star ratings of home health agencies that will be available to view by the public on the Home Health Compare website in January 2016.
 
05/18/2015
Shorten the time it takes to get prior authorization for certain Part D drugs for hospice patients by using a form recently updated by CMS. 
 
05/18/2015
CMS reminded hospices during a May 6 open door forum that mail materials for the Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (CAHPS) Hospice Survey are available in English, Spanish, traditional Chinese and simplified Chinese. 
 
05/18/2015
Medicare administrative contractor (MAC) Palmetto GBA announced May 5 that it has resolved two issues involving notices of election (NOE).
 
05/18/2015
Oral arguments were held May 7 in a battle about the legality of the Labor Department’s companionship rule.
 
05/18/2015
A CMS forum about the voluntary clinical templates it’s proposing for physicians to complete during face-to-face examinations of Medicare patients has been rescheduled for 2:30 p.m. EST May 20. 
 

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