Home Health & Hospice Week
Check iQIES To See Whether Your HHA Will Get Full Pay In 2022
Come January, what you did for quality reporting last year is going to make a difference to your bottom line. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services “is providing notifications to home health agencies that were determined to be out of compliance with Quality Reporting Program (QRP) requirements for CY 2020, which will affect their CY 2022 Annual Payment Update (APU),” CMS says in a message to providers. “Non-compliance notifications are being distributed by the Medicare Administrative Contractors (MACs) and were placed into HHAs’ My Reports folders in iQIES on October 8, 2021.” Medicare docks HHA payment rates by 2 percent if they don’t meet HQRP reporting requirements. Don’t miss: HHAs “that receive a letter of non-compliance may submit a request for reconsideration to CMS via email no later than 11:59 pm, November 10, 2021,” the agency instructs.
Home Health & Hospice Week
- Policy:
Home Care A Focus Of Newly Revamped CMS Priorities
Innovation Center is changing course. If you’re wondering whether Home Health Value-Based Purchasing will be [...] - Mergers & Acquisitions:
Private Equity Invests More In Home Care
Plus: National chain expands JV with health system. New York-based private equity firm Wellspring Capital [...] - Hospice:
Survey Consistency Can’t Come Soon Enough
‘A deficiency in Texas should be the same as a deficiency in Maine,’ hospice rep [...] - Regulations:
Hospice Survey Deadlines Get Pushed — A Little Bit
Hospices have some breathing room on enforcement remedies, public display of survey findings. Many of [...] - Survey & Certification:
Train Surveyors Centrally, Commenters Urge
But education can’t happen overnight. You can’t have survey consistency unless surveyors are trained accordingly. [...] - Industry Notes:
Celebrate — And Grow — In National Home Care & Hospice Month
Turkey isn't all you should show gratitude for this month. Don’t let the impending home [...] - Industry Notes:
Get The Latest Billing, Payment Info On COVID Boosters In This Medicare Resource
The staffing shortage that home care agencies have been wrestling with for months is getting [...] - Industry Notes:
Check iQIES To See Whether Your HHA Will Get Full Pay In 2022
Come January, what you did for quality reporting last year is going to make a [...] - Industry Notes:
Another COVID-19 PHE Renewal Is Under Providers' Belts
The COVID-19 Public Health Emergency is not ending any time soon, and the latest PHE [...] - Industry Notes:
New HCBS Website Urges State Innovations
A federal funding boost for home- and community-based services may be tangled in budget deliberations, [...] - Industry Notes:
American Heart Assn Offers HHA Certification
If your agency specializes in treating patients with heart failure, a new certification may be [...]
