Home Health & Hospice Week
Check Out New VBP Info
Add two more items to your Value-Based Purchasing educational to do list. No. 1: A new podcast, Leadership and Communication — Essential Elements for Quality Improvement~Lessons Learned from CMS Home Health Quality Initiatives, includes a discussion of “how small, targeted changes in day-to-day processes can have a big impact on the quality of care in HHAs,” the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services says in message to agencies. No. 2: A brief instructional video, HHVBP Model: Making the Most of HHVBP Resources, “provides a walkthrough of the two cornerstone resources for the expanded HHVBP Model — The Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) and the HHVBP Model Guide,” CMS says. Access those and other educational materials at https://innovation.cms.gov/innovation-models/expanded-home-health-value-based-purchasing-model.
Home Health & Hospice Week
- Patient-Driven Groupings Model:
Drastic Proposed Pay Cut Takes HHAs By Surprise
CMS rule a ‘gut punch,’ one industry veteran judges. If you think the Centers for [...] - Reimbursement:
Take A Close Look At CMS Justification For -7.69% Behavioral Adjustment
HHAs’ pay exceeds costs by 34%, according to feds. If you are shocked that Medicare [...] - Payment:
5% Wage Index Cap, LUPA Threshold Changes Ahead
Plus: CMS pulls back on outliers a tad. The 2023 home health proposed rule contains [...] - Patient-Driven Groupings Model:
Tweaks To Case Mix, Functional Impairment Levels, Comorbidity Subgroups Could Impact Your Reimbursement
A larger diagnosis coding PDGM revamp is afoot. How will recalibration of key PDGM components [...] - Oasis:
All-Payer OASIS Is On The Horizon
Medicare wants to see assessment data on all your patients — including those with very [...] - Value-Based Purchasing:
Medicare Wants New VBP Baseline Year To Be 2022
Get ready for your improvement between 2019 and 2022 to get erased. Have you been [...] - Regulations:
Keep Tabs On These Proposed Rule Provisions
GG items, telehealth, and more round out the newly proposed home health rule. Home health [...] - Hospice:
VBID Billing Problems Plague Hospices
Operational wrinkles continue to have reimbursement impact on providers. Hospice providers are having trouble getting [...] - Industry Notes:
As Gas Prices Hit Record Highs, IRS Increases Mileage Rate
The question is, what should you do about it? Skyrocketing fuel prices have hit home [...] - Industry Notes:
Mind Your Exception Requests
Be careful when making NOA or NOE exception requests, or you could find your HHH [...] - Industry Notes:
Survey SOP Changes For Vax Mandate
Medicare is loosening up its oversight of vaccination mandate compliance a smidge. “Survey oversight of [...] - Industry Notes:
Nail Down Hospice Cap Liability
Whether you’re on the buying or selling end of a hospice acquisition, you can stave [...] - Industry Notes:
Check Out New VBP Info
Add two more items to your Value-Based Purchasing educational to do list. No. 1: A [...] - Industry Notes:
Hospice-Drug Pilot In The Works
Is miscommunication with Part D plans over hospice coverage is bugging you? If so, you [...] - Industry Notes:
Beware Stealth Excluded Staff
If you don’t want to pay the feds to the tune of five figures, you’d [...] - Industry Notes:
Home Health CPO Claims Lead To Prison Sentence
The former owner of a Chicago physician practice is facing jail time related to bogus [...] - Industry Notes:
ONC Wants Your 2 Cents On Hospice-SNF Interoperability
You may be used to not picking up if you see a caller ID for [...] - Industry Notes:
HCA Florida Agencies Get New Name
HCA Florida Healthcare, an affiliate of health care behemoth HCA Healthcare, has renamed its 14 [...] - Industry Notes:
Tap These Tools To Ward Off Cyberthreats
In today’s world of phishing and ransomware spikes in the healthcare industry, there’s a way [...]
