Home Health & Hospice Week
Home Infusion Rates To Increase 5%
New benefit sees a pay bump. Home health agencies aren’t the only ones seeing a pay raise in the 2022 home health final rule. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services “is updating the home infusion therapy services payment rates for CY 2022 as required by law,” CMS says in its fact sheet on the rule. “In addition, CMS is updating the geographic adjustment factor used for wage adjustment,” it adds. “The overall economic impact of updating the payment rates for home infusion therapy services is expected to be an increase in payments to home infusion therapy suppliers of 5.1 percent,” CMS reveals. That combines a 5.4 percent consumer price index update with a 0.3 percent productivity adjustment, CMS explains.
Home Health & Hospice Week
- Value-Based Purchasing:
HHAs Get Breathing Room On Value-Based Purchasing
This time next year you should be putting finishing touches on your VBP implementation plans. [...] - Payment:
National Cohorts Here To Stay, As Is Risk Level
Watch for the VBP base year to possibly change. While the one-year delay to Home [...] - Patient-Driven Groupings Model:
‘Surprise Pay Boost’ Features In 2022 Final Rule
CMS expects to fund more outlier episodes. The 2022 home health final rule may not [...] - Reimbursement:
CMS Shuts Down HHAs On Behavioral Adjustment
Is the budget neutrality cup half full or half empty? Home health agencies have been [...] - OASIS:
HHAs’ OASIS-E Reprieve Cut Short By Final Rule
Watch for draft of revamped assessment tool in early summer. If you’re under pressure from [...] - Conditions of Participation:
HHAs Win Important Change In Aide Supervision Flexibility
CMS tries for middle ground with change to observation for aides of nonskilled patients. A [...] - Therapy:
Permanent OT Assessments For Therapy-Only Cases Sail Through Finalization
Cases involving nursing are still status quo — at least for now. A Consolidated Appropriations [...] - Quality:
Get To Know Your New HCI Components
Say goodbye to current hospitalization measures, and hello to a new ‘potentially preventable’ hospitalization measure. [...] - Hospice:
Hospices Secure Some Key Changes In Coming Survey Revamp
Special Focus Program taken off fast track. The 2022 home health final rule will make [...] - Industry Note:
Home Infusion Rates To Increase 5%
New benefit sees a pay bump. Home health agencies aren’t the only ones seeing a [...] - Industry Notes:
Health System Self-Discloses HH & Hospice Errors, Pays $18M
A health system is forking over more than $18 million for bogus home health and [...] - Industry Notes:
Beware Tricky NOA Submissions
Don’t forget that home health Notices of Admission are “right around the corner,” emphasized a [...]
