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Submit Your PPS Rule Comments Before It's Too Late

Published on Tue Aug 03, 2010

Don't let major payment and regulatory changes happen without your input. Home health agencies and hospices have some big blank spots about how new provisions proposed in the PPS 2011 update are going to work, but they won't be getting any clarification for a while. Callers in the Aug. 25 Open Door Forum for home care providers posed some tough questions for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services about provisions on face-to-face encounters for home health agencies and hospices, and therapy reassessments. The HHA and hospice callers were trying to figure out how the proposed provisions would work, but CMS isn't giving out any more information on the new requirements until the final rule comes out, said CMS's Lori Anderson. Providers should submit concerns and suggestions about the provisions as part of formal rule comments, Anderson urged. Providers have until Sept. 14 to submit their questions and feedback. The [...]
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