Home Health & Hospice Week

Medicare has updated its home health agency cost report forms, again.

The changes apply to cost reporting periods ending on or after Jan. 1, 2024, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services says in Transmittal No. 6 issued on April 29.

The revisions affect Worksheet S (revising Part I, line 4, to specify that options “F”, “L” or “N” are reported in column 1, and adding option “H” to Part I, line 4, column 2, for a HHA providing no Medicare HHA services but providing Medicare hospice services during the cost reporting period) and Worksheet D (removing line 29.50 as providers need not report the late-filed notice of admission/request for anticipated payment amount), CMS notes.

The updated form also revises edits 1045S, 1215S, and 1030D, according to the transmittal.

Links to the transmittal and the form itself are at www.cms.gov/regulations-and-guidance/guidance/transmittals/2024-transmittals/r6p247i.