Industry Notes:
'Confined To Home' Definition Hits The Books -- Again
Published on Fri Aug 22, 2014
Nearly three years later, CMS’s regs are catching up with its rulemaking. In the 2012 Home Health Prospective Payment System final rule published in fall 2011, CMS finalized a proposal to clarify the “confined to the home” definition. The new manual language “more accurately reflect(s) the definition as articulated … [in] the Social Security Act,” the agency says in Change [...]