Home Health & Hospice Week
Know This Timeline Exception
Medicare will give you some breathing room for quality improvement.
Medicare did relent on one small area for the July 2017 Conditions of Participation deadline: the Quality Assurance Performance Improvement requirement.
“A phased-in implementation time frame is appropriate for the requirement that [home health agencies] must conduct performance improvement projects because it will take additional time to collect the data necessary to identify areas ... that are appropriate for performance improvement,” the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services says in the CoPs final rule scheduled for publication in the Jan. 13 Federal Register. “We have added a phase-in to allow HHAs the time necessary to collect data prior to implementing performance improvement projects.”
Under the revised timeline, HHAs will receive “a full 12 month time period between the time that this final rule is published and the time that HHAs must begin conducting performance improvement projects,” CMS says — in other words, January 2018.
Home Health & Hospice Week
- Conditions of Participation:
Ready, Set, Go On Compliance With Long-Awaited New COPs
Time is of the essence. A regulation change 20 years in the making is final [...] - Compliance:
Know This Timeline Exception
Medicare will give you some breathing room for quality improvement. Medicare did relent on one [...] - Regulations:
Peruse The Many Changes In The New COPs
Prepare for care transition focus. The long-awaited final rule on Home Health Conditions of Participation [...] - Conditions of Participation:
Patient Rights, Discharge Summary Top CoP Challenges
Are HIPAA-based survey citations on deck? Between reimbursement cuts, Pre-Claim Review, Probe & Educate, Value-Based [...] - Select Conditions of Participation Revisions
Revised §484.50(a)(1) to clarify that it is the patient’s legal representative that must be informed [...] - Survey & Certification:
HHAs Welcome These Changes
Verbal order clarification a boost. You don’t have to worry about one troubling change Medicare [...] - Face-To-Face:
HHAs Look To Improve On 60% Denial Rate In Probe & Educate
F2F problems dog P&E claims. As Medicare kicks Round 2 of the Probe & Educate [...] - Industry Note:
HHA Moratoria Continues
No end in sight. It’s at least six more months of no new home health [...] - Industry Note:
Medicare Prepares 2 New Quality Measures On 'Transfer of Health Information and Care Preferences'
You can get a sneak peak at two more IMPACT Act-required quality measures if you [...]
