Home Health Line Breaking News
07/30/2024
The fiscal year 2025 hospice payment increase will be 2.9%, according to the final rule released Tuesday, July 30. The proposed payment update released in March was 2.6%. 
07/29/2024
Clinicians struggling to accurately score D0150, Patient Mood Interview (PHQ-2 to 9), and D0160, Total Severity Score, have a new resource via a CMS video tutorial.
07/25/2024
The MedPAC data shows that Medicare margins for freestanding home health agencies was at 22.1% in 2022, down from 24.9% in 2021.
07/24/2024
Proscectors say the agency involved provided Medicaid services that weren't medically necessary and paid kickbacks for patient referrals.
07/23/2024
The results continue to show significant year-over-year improvement nationally for several OASIS-based measures, as well as modest increases in HHCAHPS scores.
07/17/2024
Gentiva, successor to Kindred at Home, has agreed to pay $19.428 million to resolve allegations that Kindred at Home and related entities knowingly submitted false claims and knowingly retained overpayments for hospice services provided to patients who were ineligible to receive hospice benefits under various federal health care programs.
07/16/2024
A proposed rule regarding infection diseases is tentatively scheduled for release in November and a workplace violence in health care proposed rule is scheduled for release in December.
07/16/2024
Clinical judgement should be used to determine if the patient is able to respond for each of the Social Determinants of Health (SDoH) OASIS items, CMS clarified in the July 2024 quarterly OASIS Q&As – released July 11. 
07/15/2024
CMS is expected to release the final rule no later than the first few days of August. The 2024 final rule was released July 28 last year and the 2023 rule was released July 27 the prior year.
07/11/2024
Mail-only responses are at 23.2% and phone-only responses are at 21.0% in the fourth quarter of 2023. But mixed mode, a mailed survey with a phone follow-up, saw a 28.5% response rate.

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