Home Health Line
07/18/2011

The National Association for Home Care & Hospice has presented CMS with a catalogue of agency experiences from 20 states showing the degree to which the face-to-face encounter requirement has limited

07/18/2011

Software shortfalls are making it harder for agencies to comply with a recent CMS clarification that all non-covered visits must be included on their claims.

07/18/2011

Home health copays are on the table for Democrats and Republicans negotiating an increase in the debt ceiling aimed at avoiding a first-ever U.S. default, a discussion outline released by

07/18/2011
Private duty home care aide retention can be as simple as saying, “Thank you.”
07/11/2011

CMS wants to shrink Medicare’s current home health rates by an average of 3.35% next year under the proposed 2012 PPS rule released July 5.

07/11/2011

Agencies will be forced to ramp up training related to therapy services and ICD-9 coding accuracy, especially for patients with hypertension, if proposals in the 2012 PPS rule become final.

07/11/2011

CMS may be adding to the already significant burden of the face-to-face encounter requirement with its changes in the proposed 2012 PPS rule, agencies say.

07/11/2011

Agencies hoping the proposed 2012 PPS rule would bring relief from the scheduling headaches related to the therapy reassessment requirements are out of luck.

07/11/2011

CMS sharpens the definition of homebound status. The proposal removes vague language from the definition, such as the term “generally speaking” and also reorders the list of conditions that would

07/11/2011

CMS issued a proposed rule June 30 that would retract its policy to require physician signatures on lab test requisitions. CMS had previously announced that it planned not to enforce

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