Home Health & Hospice Week
Prepare For 2021 Rates
Home Health & Hospice Week
- Reimbursement:
Still No Direct Pay For HHAs’ Telehealth Visits
HHAs should redouble efforts to furnish virtual visits — and report data on them accurately, [...] - Regulations:
Burdensome Telehealth Requirement On Plan Of Care Dropped
Audio-only visits count, feds confirm. Home health agencies may not have gotten what they wanted [...] - Compliance:
Keep Compliance In Mind When Furnishing Visits Via Telecommunications Tech
Accessibility is required under the law, CoPs. Take to heart some CMS comments about providing [...] - Policy:
Crystal Ball Shows Favorable Conditions Under Biden Administration
Heavier regulations may be on deck, however. One thing 2020 has driven home is that [...] - Quality:
Medicare Freezes HH, Hospice Compare Sites For A Year
Your data won’t be public, but it will be available to you. Hopefully your latest [...] - Mergers & Acquisitions:
Hospices Chains Keep Growing
Hospice execs talked ramped-up M&A in latest earnings calls. Acquisitions aren’t the only avenue to [...] - Industry Notes:
Review This Summary Of 2021 Pay Changes
Plus: Claims processing system to change. You can take a look at the rundown of [...] - Industry Notes:
Prepare For 2021 Rates
Check your iQIES folder to determine whether you met your Home Health Quality Reporting Program [...] - Industry Notes:
No Election Means No NOTR
The Medicare Claims Processing Manual has caught up to current hospice billing with a new [...] - Industry Notes:
Medicare Deductibles, Premiums Rise
Count Medicare deductibles and premiums among the costs rising in 2021. “The Medicare Part A [...] - Industry Notes:
Look For HOPE Analysis Next Spring
Hospice Outcomes & Patient Evaluation (HOPE) assessment tool testing appears to still be on track. [...] - Industry Notes:
HH Fraudster Gets 5 Years
Just because it’s not Medicare fraud doesn’t mean it won’t carry a big penalty. In [...] - Industry Notes:
HH Employee Faces Kickback Charges
A Texas home health employee and medical marketing business owner are facing kickback and other [...] - Industry Notes:
HH Owner Convicted Of Tax Evasion
A Wisconsin federal judge has sentenced Medicaid home health agency owner Latoya N. Joseph to [...] - Industry Notes:
Bayada, Baptist Health Form Joint Venture In Florida
Moorestown, New Jersey-based BAYADA Home Health Care is forming a joint venture with Baptist Health [...]
