Home Health & Hospice Week

Compliance:

Proposed Deregulation Shot Down

Bad news: You still have to furnish the patient rights verbal notice on the next visit. The ability to once again use pseudo-patients for aide competency testing is a welcome surprise in the new final rule that aims to lighten Medicare providers’ regulatory burdens. But there was another provision affecting home health agencies in the proposed rule that did not [...]
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