Home Health Line Breaking News
01/23/2023
Agencies soon could see more automated rejections as CMS updates its claims processing system to correct a pandemic-era blind spot that was requiring manual review by MACs.
01/23/2023
CMS has created new 10-15 minute training videos for providers that focus on commonly cited deficiencies.
01/23/2023
Four national hospice organizations have called on CMS and Congress to strengthen hospice program integrity through key legislative and regulatory changes.
01/17/2023
CMS provides further guidance on answering N0415 (High-risk drug classes: use and indication) — an item that has raised a lot of questions for clinicians in the early days of OASIS-E. This new information was part of 13 answers in the first quarter OASIS Q&As, released Jan. 17.
01/16/2023
“The majority of the claims being returned are provider billing error and need to be corrected,” the MACs noted in their message to agencies.
01/13/2023
The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) voted unanimously Jan. 12 to recommend that Congress cut home health payment rates by 7% in 2024.
01/11/2023
As expected, HHS has extended the COVID-19 public health emergency until at least the second week of April.
01/09/2023
The rate is commonly used as a default metric to reimburse employees for business travel.
01/09/2023
Home health care services continued to show strong growth in December, adding 10,800 jobs over the month.
01/09/2023
Come April 1, coders will  have additional code options to further capture Social Determinants of Health (SDoH) as CDC released upcoming changes to both the code set and official guidelines on Jan. 9.

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