Home Health & Hospice Week
Industry Notes:
2% Sequestration Holiday To Continue Until The End Of The Year, Thanks To Quick Legislative Action
Published on Fri Apr 16, 2021
Home health and hospice providers’ efforts to fend off the reimposition of the 2 percent sequestration cut have succeeded. On April 14, President Biden signed into law H.R. 1868, which extends a suspension of Medicare sequestration until Dec. 31. The House passed it after reconciling differences with the Senate version on April 13. “This action is a significant gain for home health agencies and hospices as it avoids a payment reduction with a value of an estimated $270 million to home health agencies and $300 million to hospices,” National Association for Home Care & Hospice President Bill Dombi said in the trade group’s member newsletter.
Other Articles in this issue of
Home Health & Hospice Week
- Quality:
Surprise! Home Health Provision Appears In Hospice Rule
Your quality data from the COVID era will hit screens in January. If you’ve skipped [...] - Reimbursement:
Labor Share Change May Wipe Out Your FY 2022 Hospice Pay Increase From Medicare
Revamped labor share figures will create winners, losers. Medicare plans to increase hospice payment rates [...] - Conditions of Participation:
COVID Aide Flexibility To Become Permanent
Hospice-home health alignment encourages efficiency. If the regulatory waiver allowing the use of pseudo-patients for [...] - Regulations:
Small Hospice Addendum Problems Solved, Large Ones Remain
Tip: Add a ‘date furnished’ entry to your charts and forms. Hospices will get a [...] - Quality:
Star Ratings, Composite Index Measure Are Coming Hospices’ Way
HCI to include info on frequency and duration of visits. There are plenty of quality-related [...] - Industry Notes:
Claims Glitch Involving Dummy HIPPS Codes Evades Resolution
LUPA-related glitch should be fixed shortly. CMS and its contractors are knocking out Patient- Driven [...] - Industry Notes:
2% Sequestration Holiday To Continue Until The End Of The Year, Thanks To Quick Legislative Action
Home health and hospice providers’ efforts to fend off the reimposition of the 2 percent [...] - Industry Notes:
CMS Mulls Inclusion of Cross-Setting SPADES In Forthcoming HOPE Assessment Tool
Development of the Hospice Outcome and Patient Evaluation tool continues, and it might not be [...]
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