Home Health & Hospice Week
Consult This Dashboard For Survey & Cert Data
Home health and hospice agencies now have pertinent data at their fingertips with the newly expanded Acute and Continuing Care (ACC) Survey and Certification (S&C) Dashboard. “The ACC S&C Dashboard has been enhanced to provide users access to more provider types in a centralized location,” the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services says in a message to providers. Users including HHAs and hospices “can quickly access S&C data,” CMS adds. “Data for provider types that have been migrated into iQIES (HHA, ASC and Hospice) are sourced from iQIES and are updated daily,” CMS explains. “Each tab in the dashboard contains interactive graphs and charts related to provider S&C information, survey details, and much more,” the agency says. Do this: “To access the dashboard, log into iQIES using your HARP credentials, select the Dashboard menu option and start exploring the dashboard today,” CMS encourages. The next Dashboard Office Hours event demo’ing the tool takes place on March 26. More information is online at https://cms.zoomgov.com/webinar/register/ WN_1WnKv1CNQK60jktINLdViw#/registration.
Home Health & Hospice Week
- Medical Review:
MAC Flags Lack Of Responses To CERT Requests As A Problem
You’re on the hook for securing documentation from other providers, MAC stresses. One HHH Medicare [...] - Medicaid:
Keep An Eye Out For Medicaid 80/20 Final Rule
At least the change would be 4 years off, if it’s adopted as proposed. Home [...] - New Q&As On Hospice MFTs, MHCs Shed Light On Some Questions, While Leaving Others Unanswered
MSWs will remain an important part of hospice, new guidance underscores. The ability for hospices [...] - Quality:
Policymakers Press Pause On PEPPERs
Home health and hospice agencies are on their own for benchmarking, at least until next [...] - Fraud & Abuse:
Hospices Are Taking Yet Another Turn In The Fraud Hot Seat
Fraud problems in Western states are far from fixed, critics say. Just when hospices think [...] - Health IT:
Check Out This Top 10 List That Impacts Your Health IT
Keep these agency acronyms straight. Don’t flail in a sea of alphabet soup while trying [...] - Industry Notes:
HHA Owner Draws 9-Year Prison Sentence
DOJ heralds another Health Care Fraud Strike Force victory. After being convicted of Medicare home [...] - Industry Notes:
Consult This Dashboard For Survey & Cert Data
Home health and hospice agencies now have pertinent data at their fingertips with the newly [...] - Industry Notes:
Peruse New SDoH-Focused File
If you’re interested in social determinants of health for Medicare beneficiaries, the Centers for Medicare [...] - Industry Notes:
Find Out More About Your Health Equity Reports
Home health agencies that haven’t gotten much use out of those Health Equity Confidential Feedback [...] - Industry Notes:
Part B Therapy Threshold Inches Up
The new year also brought a new therapy threshold amount. For Part B therapy services [...] - Industry Notes:
Arkansas Agency Faces Misclassification Lawsuit
An Arkansas-based home care provider is facing a lawsuit over how it classifies its employees. [...] - Industry Notes:
California Provider Faces 20-Year Exclusion
A California home health agency and owner have agreed to a 20-year exclusion from Medicare [...]
