Home Health & Hospice Week
Industry Notes:
Peruse New HQRP Videos From Medicare
Published on Fri Aug 26, 2022
You can access two new videos to get up to speed on certain Hospice Quality Reporting Program topics. Video #1: A three-minute video at https://youtu.be/ qFeo2OMRXDk provides an overview of the new Hospice Care Index (HCI) claims-based measure. Video #2: And a nearly four-minute video at https://youtu. be/nfcq80J6csw provides an HQRP overview by reviewing the program’s purpose, data collection, and quality measures.
Other Articles in this issue of
Home Health & Hospice Week
- Reimbursement:
HHAs To Medicare: Don’t Kick Us While We’re Down
Program is drastically underestimating agencies’ costs of doing business, rule commenters tell CMS. Home health [...] - Budget:
List Of Drastically Increased Costs Goes On And On For HHAs
Gas might be the flashiest of cost monsters, but there are plenty of others. Medicare’s [...] - Regulations:
Will CMS Listen?
HHAs wait on pins and needles for final regulation in a couple of months. Home [...] - Labor Law:
Providers Pay Millions In Wage and Hour Cases
Plus: Hospice stiffed its workers too, DOL says. If you were wondering how hard the [...] - Industry Notes:
Provider Shells Out $10 Million In COVID Vax Mandate Lawsuit.
Religious exemption denials were at issue. Has exposure to litigation based on your COVID vaccination [...] - Industry Notes:
Official Word: Plan Now For PHE Wrap-Up.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is thinking about the end of the COVID-19 [...] - Industry Notes:
CMS Ditches CMNs.
If you wish some of Medicare’s more annoying and useless requirements would just go away, [...] - Industry Notes:
Peruse New HQRP Videos From Medicare
You can access two new videos to get up to speed on certain Hospice Quality [...] - Industry Notes:
QRP Exceptions Available To Kentucky Agencies Facing Disaster
Kentucky home health and hospice agencies affected by the severe storms and flooding in the [...] - Industry Notes:
MFP Expands To 5 New States And Territories
The Biden-Harris administration is pumping more funds into Medicaid’s Money Follows the Person (MFP) demonstration [...] - Industry Notes:
New Hospice Documents Offer Crucial Info
Check out the latest hospice program info in some new hospice documents. The new hospice [...] - Industry Notes:
County Helps Reward Aides With COVID Pay
A new county program is giving home care providers a boost when it comes to [...] - Industry Notes:
Corpus Christi Hospice Forks Over $1M To Settle Qui Tam Charges
A Texas hospice will pay nearly $1 million to settle whistleblower charges that it submitted [...]
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