Home Health & Hospice Week

Keep up to date with your ABN/CCN compliance with a revised form.

Background: Back in 2013, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services replaced the Home Health Advance Beneficiary Notice containing three option boxes with two separate forms — the ABN (covering former Option Box 1) and a “Home Health Change of Care Notice” (covering former Option Boxes 2 and 3). The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services requires home health agencies to issue an HHCCN to patients any time the services on their plan of care are reduced or terminated (see Eli’s HCW, Vol. XXII, No. 25).

CMS revised the form and received Office of Management and Budget approval for it in June, the agency said in an email message last month. The new form located at www.cms.gov/Medicare/Medicare-General-Information/BNI/HHCCN.html will take effect Jan. 19, CMS said in the message.