Home Health & Hospice Week
ACOs Save Medicare Big Bucks Year After Year
Whether you see ACOs as an opportunity or a hindrance — or both — they’re likely to be around for a while. The Medicare Shared Savings Program, through Accountable Care Organizations, saved the Medicare program $1.6 billion in 2021 and “continues to deliver high-quality care,” the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services says in a release. “This marks the fifth consecutive year the program has generated overall savings and high-quality performance results,” CMS touts. “The Medicare Shared Savings Program demonstrates how a coordinated care approach can improve quality and outcomes for people with Medicare while also reducing costs for the entire health system,” CMS Administrator Chiquita Brooks-LaSure praises in the release. “Just last month, we proposed ways to further grow and expand this successful program, especially in rural and underserved communities,” in the proposed physician fee schedule rule, HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra says in the release. About 58 percent of participating ACOs earned payments for their performance in 2021, CMS says.
Home Health & Hospice Week
- Value-Based Purchasing:
VBP Baseline Move Is A Raw Deal, HHAs Tell CMS
Suggestion: If CMS won’t keep 2019 as the baseline year, then it should postpone implementation. [...] - Education:
Make The Most Of The 4 Months Left Before VBP Implementation
If you missed the latest VBP webinar, it’s now available to review. As home health [...] - Reimbursement:
VBP Has Problems Beyond Date Change
Medicare Advantage will make HHAs’ lives difficult in even more ways under the new payment [...] - Face-To-Face:
F2F Telehealth Will End When PHE Does, CMS Confirms
But that’s not quite the whole story. Medicare officials have told providers to begin planning [...] - Mergers & Acquisitions:
PE-Backed Hospice Chain Makes Midwest Buys
Plus: Non-profit hospice affiliates with non-acute health system in Florida. Troy, Michigan-based Residential Hospice has [...] - Fraud & Abuse:
Novus Hospice Fraudsters Approach A Century Of Prison Time
The longest sentence is more than 13 years, while the most recent is for the [...] - Industry Notes:
Providers To Give CMS A Piece Of Their Minds About Emergency Prep
Watch for potential EP changes in the future. The COVID-19 public health emergency has dominated [...] - Industry Notes:
ACOs Save Medicare Big Bucks Year After Year
Whether you see ACOs as an opportunity or a hindrance — or both — they’re [...] - Industry Notes:
Tap More Detailed Help For HQRP Report Access
If your staff could use some help downloading Hospice Quality Reporting Program reports, the Centers [...] - Industry Notes:
Take An Email Break This Weekend
Hold onto that email to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services until after Labor [...] - Industry Notes:
Managed Care Enrollees Make Up Nearly Half Of Medicare Benes
The number of Medicare enrollees continues to climb. “As of May 2022, 64,553,288 people are [...] - Industry Notes:
Don't Sleep On Clerical Reopenings
Don’t waste time on an appeal when you can get a simple reopening instead. But [...] - Industry Notes:
Consult Newly Updated Guidance On Billing For Hospice Docs, NPPs
The MACs are offering a helping hand when it comes to billing hospice physician, nurse [...]
