Home Health & Hospice Week
Revised Quality Measure Procedures Take Shape As New QM Contractor Ramps Up
Home Health & Hospice Week
- Patient-Driven Groupings Model:
2.2% Reimbursement Cut To Hammer HHAs Next Year
Medicare officials are slicing deep this time. Medicare is putting beneficiaries’ access to home health [...] - Reimbursement:
CMS Goes Back To Negative Rate Adjustments After A 5-Year Break
Don’t stop at base rate when calculating rule’s impact on your pay next year. The [...] - Value-Based Purchasing:
VBP Ground Continues To Shift Under HHAs’ Feet, Experts Say
Under newly proposed configuration, half of VBP points will come from only 2 measures. As [...] - Quality:
COVID Vax Quality Measure To Land On HHAs’ Plates
Plus: Beware looming DC Function problems. Like much of the rest of the home health [...] - Hospice:
The Other Shoe Finally Drops On Hospice Special Focus Program
Multiple hospice program integrity measures feature in HH rule this year. It’s yet another year [...] - Enrollment:
Take A Closer Look At Hospice Enrollment Changes
CIMO application aims to prevent new hospice ‘flipping.’ The hospice Special Focus Program isn’t the [...] - Fraud & Abuse:
Changes To PPEO, Retroactive Termination Aim To Close Loopholes
Plus: Period for non-billing before deactivation will get cut by half. Hospices aren’t the only [...] - Industry Notes:
Revised Quality Measure Procedures Take Shape As New QM Contractor Ramps Up
Put deadlines for QM book webinar and comments, plus PQM committee nominations, on your calendar. [...] - Industry Notes:
Oklahoma Hospice Pays Modest Settlement To Settle Fraud Charges
A Tulsa, Okla. hospice has agreed to pay $48,830.70 to resolve allegations that it submitted [...] - Industry Notes:
COVID Fraud Remains On Feds' Radar
The COVID-19 public health emergency ended on May 11, but federal enforcement of COVID fraud [...]
