Home Health Line Breaking News
11/04/2021
CMS will require that eligible home health and hospice staff have received their shot or shots for full COVID-19 vaccination by Jan. 4, 2022, in order for the provider to participate in the Medicare and Medicaid programs. OSHA also has released its vaccine requirements for employers with more than 100 employees.
11/04/2021
Pennsylvania home health and hospice provider will pay $18.5 million to resolve allegations of civil liability for submitting claims to Medicare for services that violated Medicare rules and regulations.
11/03/2021
The combination of Hurricane Ida and clinicians on quarantine led to a sequential decline of 1.5% in average daily home health census.
11/02/2021
CMS is giving agencies time to prepare before the national rollout of the Home Health Value-Based Purchasing model (HHVBP) begins impacting payments.
11/01/2021
Researchers looked at more than 87,000 patient records and found patients who preferred a language other than English had a higher hospital readmission rate (20.4%) than English-speaking patients (18.5%).
11/01/2021
CMS is alerting providers to a change in billing for some COVID-19 vaccines.
10/28/2021
CMS is stressing the role a health care provider’s recommendation will play in getting hesitant patients to get their flu shot.
10/26/2021
This training is intended for home health and other post-acute providers. It is designed to be used on demand anywhere you can access a browser.
10/25/2021
CMS will now pay for the administration of booster shots for all three of the COVID-19 vaccines after FDA and CDC approval for Moderna and J&J vaccines last week, including an additional payment for administering the vaccine in the patient’s home.
10/22/2021
A new transmittal to MACs issued Oct. 21, 2021, notes the manual updates for clarification on the election statement addendum requirements.

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