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Published on Fri Feb 02, 2024

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Home Health & Hospice Week

Medical Review:
MAC Flags Lack Of Responses To CERT Requests As A Problem
You’re on the hook for securing documentation from other providers, MAC stresses. One HHH Medicare [...]

Medicaid:
Keep An Eye Out For Medicaid 80/20 Final Rule
At least the change would be 4 years off, if it’s adopted as proposed. Home [...]

New Q&As On Hospice MFTs, MHCs Shed Light On Some Questions, While Leaving Others Unanswered
MSWs will remain an important part of hospice, new guidance underscores. The ability for hospices [...]

Quality:
Policymakers Press Pause On PEPPERs
Home health and hospice agencies are on their own for benchmarking, at least until next [...]

Fraud & Abuse:
Hospices Are Taking Yet Another Turn In The Fraud Hot Seat
Fraud problems in Western states are far from fixed, critics say. Just when hospices think [...]

Health IT:
Check Out This Top 10 List That Impacts Your Health IT
Keep these agency acronyms straight. Don’t flail in a sea of alphabet soup while trying [...]

Industry Notes:
HHA Owner Draws 9-Year Prison Sentence
DOJ heralds another Health Care Fraud Strike Force victory. After being convicted of Medicare home [...]

Industry Notes:
Consult This Dashboard For Survey & Cert Data
Home health and hospice agencies now have pertinent data at their fingertips with the newly [...]

Industry Notes:
Peruse New SDoH-Focused File
If you’re interested in social determinants of health for Medicare beneficiaries, the Centers for Medicare [...]

Industry Notes:
Find Out More About Your Health Equity Reports
Home health agencies that haven’t gotten much use out of those Health Equity Confidential Feedback [...]

Industry Notes:
Part B Therapy Threshold Inches Up
The new year also brought a new therapy threshold amount. For Part B therapy services [...]

Industry Notes:
Arkansas Agency Faces Misclassification Lawsuit
An Arkansas-based home care provider is facing a lawsuit over how it classifies its employees. [...]

Industry Notes:
California Provider Faces 20-Year Exclusion
A California home health agency and owner have agreed to a 20-year exclusion from Medicare [...]

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