Home Health & Hospice Week
Potential Rate Cuts Loom As CMS Claims HH Pay Far Exceeds Cost
Highest-paying clinical groups see utilization drops under PDGM, Medicare data shows. Policy- and lawmakers are [...]
Higher Functional Impairment Levels To Become Harder To Achieve
Plus: Get to know big comorbidity group revamp. Data revealed in the recent proposed home [...]
Chain Buys Agencies From Coast To Coast
Higher hospice M&A volume persists. National chain LHC Group Inc. has had a busy few [...]
Still Operating Under Your Emergency Prep Plan? Don’t Sweat Testing, Updated CMS Memo Assures
Plus: OIG is going to examine EP CoP compliance. Home health and hospice agencies have [...]
Brace For OSHA COVID ETS Inspections
2 new OSHA directives are getting inspectors ready — and one highlights whistleblowers. The Biden [...]
Watch Your CASPER Folder For Pay-Docking Notice
Keep in mind: You must pull the trigger on a reconsideration request quickly. Don’t let [...]
Get CERT Program Answers At This New Website
Medicare has a new website for all things CERT-related. The CERT C3HUB web site at [...]
Health IT Experts Sought For Advisory Panel
If you think the feds need to hear more about health IT from the home [...]
Download HH PEPPER Report Now
You can now download the newest version of your Home Health PEPPER Report. “Fourth quarter [...]
Sacremento HHA, Hospice Owner Pleads Guilty To Kickbacks
A California home health and hospice agency owner has pleaded guilty to fraud and kickback [...]
State Paid $620M For Services Hospices Should Have Covered, Audit Says
It’s not just Medicare that is putting payments for non-hospice services to hospice enrollees under [...]