Home Health & Hospice Week
Industry Note:
Watch For This Letter
Published on Fri Jul 19, 2019
As promised in this month’s Open Door Forum, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has issued letters to hospices found noncompliant with Hospice Quality Reporting Program data submission requirements in 2018, affecting their 2020 hospice rates. Hard copy letters from HHH Medicare Administrative Contractors may still be in the mail, but the letter is also in affected providers’ CASPER folders on QIES as of July 16, CMS says in an email to providers. Deadline: “Hospices that receive a letter of non-compliance may submit a request for reconsideration to CMS via email no later than 11:59 pm PST, August 15, 2019,” CMS stresses in the email.
Other Articles in this issue of
Home Health & Hospice Week
- Patient-Driven Groupings Model:
Behavioral Adjustment Cut Gets Worse, Not Better, In 2020 Proposed Rule
PDGM rates will be 8% lower due to cuts. Most home health agencies are in [...] - Reimbursement:
HHA Rates To Increase 1.3% Next Year — Or Will They?
CMS wants to hear from you on wage index woes. Home health agencies will see [...] - Billing:
Say Goodbye To RAPs Forever
And 2020’s RAP payments will be reduced by 2/3. Medicare is finishing what it started [...] - Regulations:
New Notice Of Admission Requirements Slated For 2020
HHAs will be hit with double whammy — losing RAP pay and incurring NOA late [...] - Compliance:
You're Off The Reimbursement Hook For Certain CoP Violations
But make sure advanced directive info is in your patients’ POCs. Medicare’s annual rulemaking cycle [...] - Therapy:
Therapy Assistants May Get Bigger HH Role In 2020
Patients Over Paperwork-related change on deck. Many home health agencies are making serious changes to [...] - Infusion:
Home Infusion Benefit Proposal Needs Major Work
Paying only when clinician is present is a mistake. The advent of a home infusion [...] - Industry Note:
Erroneous ZIP Code Edit Leads To Return Trip For NOEs
You have multiple options to cope. A claims system glitch has been returning numerous Notices [...] - Industry Note:
Watch For This Letter
As promised in this month’s Open Door Forum, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services [...] - Industry Note:
Hospice Reveals Another HIPAA Breach
Alive Hospice in Nashville is reporting another HIPAA breach, about a year after one involving [...]
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