Industry needs Congress’ help. While the Patient-Driven Groupings Model is supposed to be a budget-neutral reform to how Medicare pays home health agencies, in realityproviders will see a big cut in transitioning … Continue Reading →
Plus: Outlier formula tweak will make them a little easier to obtain. Not surprisingly, home health agencies are consumed with the details of the payment reform model included in the … Continue Reading →
Patients over Paperwork initiative results in some small — very small — proposed changes. A dab of regulatory relief is better than none at all — or is it? On … Continue Reading →
Are you in the nearly 40% of hospices not reporting volunteer services coordination? Medicare is getting serious about hospice cost reporting, and that focus is likely to translate into payment … Continue Reading →
Key: Help show that aide services will ‘reduce avoidable emergency and healthcare utilization.’ Exactly how much a new broadening of the Medicare Advantage benefit rules will affect home care providers … Continue Reading →
Some newly announced changes for home health agency cost reports may alter how you submit them. Transmittal 18, issued by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services last month, updates Chapter 32, Home … Continue Reading →
Drop in agencies occurred in fraud-prone areas, MedPAC says. Law- and policymakers are basing their decisions on facts and figures the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission provides in its annual report to Congress. … Continue Reading →
