Home Health & Hospice Week
No-Pay RAPs And Related Penalties Loom On The Horizon
If you’d been hoping the penalty for late or no RAPs would go away for next year, no such luck. In 2021, home health agencies won’t receive any payment for RAPs, receiving 100 percent of the period’s payment from the final claim. But agencies that fail to submit RAPs or submit them later than five days after care starts will face a financial penalty, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services confirms in a new MLN Matters article on the topic released July 31. Reminder: No-pay RAPs will then go away in 2022, but be replaced with nearly the same thing. “The information needed for submission of the RAP in CY 2021 will mirror the one-time Notice of Admission (NOA) process, also finalized in the CY 2020 HH PPS final rule with comment period, starting in CY 2022,” CMS says in the article at www.cms.gov/files/document/MM11855.pdf.
Home Health & Hospice Week
- Fraud & Abuse:
OIG Hits HHAs Hard On Near-LUPA Episodes
Medicare overpaid HHAs $192 million for episodes slightly exceeding LUPA thresholds. LUPAs are more of [...] - Hospice:
Addendum Requirement Continues To Barrel Toward Hospices This Fall
Hospices have less than 2 months until implementation. Hospices hoping to get some breathing room [...] - Reimbursement:
Hospice Final Rule Reduces Pay Update Slightly
Big swings for wage index areas may batter already struggling hospices. A minor reduction in [...] - Regulations:
Hospice Final Rule Seems To Give Thumbs Up To Electronic Signatures
More good news: Contractors can’t trigger the condition for payment, only patients. There’s a lot [...] - Industry Notes:
Calculate Your PPP Loan Forgiveness With New Clarifications
Owners of multiple businesses can decide how to allocate their compensation. If you’re still trying [...] - Industry Notes:
NY Federal Court Decision Creates Potential Labor Law Risk.
A Department of Labor frequently asked question set from March may not be the final [...] - Industry Notes:
No-Pay RAPs And Related Penalties Loom On The Horizon
If you’d been hoping the penalty for late or no RAPs would go away for [...] - Industry Notes:
Hospices' PEPPER Reports Have Arrived And HHAs' Are Nearly Here
Now that providers’ pandemic-related break from PEPPER reports is over, it’s time for home care [...] - Industry Notes:
CMS Touts Telehealth Expansion
Telehealth expansion is on Medicare’s to-do list, but it may not touch home care providers [...] - Industry Notes:
PHE Gets Another Extension
The Department of Health and Human Services Secretary has officially extended the COVID-19 public health [...] - Industry Notes:
Take A Look At Corrected Reports
If you’ve looked at your Provider Preview Reports and/or the Quality of Patient Care Star [...] - Industry Notes:
Find Out How to Track Cost Reports
Bone up on the cost report system’s new tracking feature via a recording or transcript [...] - Industry Notes:
3 Indicted In $12M HH Scheme
A Michigan couple faces fraud and tax evasion charges in connection with a $12 million [...] - Industry Notes:
Authorities Continue To Focus On Medicaid Fraud — This Time In FL
Authorities have arrested a Florida Medicaid home and community-based services agency owner for an alleged [...]
