Home Health & Hospice Week
Providers To Give CMS A Piece Of Their Minds About Emergency Prep
Watch for potential EP changes in the future. The COVID-19 public health emergency has dominated the landscape for most home health and hospice agencies the past few years, but Medicare wants to hear from providers regarding non-COVID emergencies. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services “is looking to gather information from health care providers and suppliers on their experiences providing support during public health emergencies (PHE) outside of the COVID-19 PHE,” CMS says in a new message to providers. “The input and lessons learned from this session will be used to evaluate CMS regulations regarding emergency preparedness for certain health care providers,” the agency says. CMS will hold a listening session on Sept. 13, but the session is already full. The questions CMS poses in the invitation might give providers a clue as to the agency’s intentions in the EP arena, however. “Do the current CMS emergency preparedness regulations create any unintended barriers in your work?” the agency asks. “What additional resources could you use as you update your plans?” CMS also inquires. “Does your process include any type of ‘failure analysis’ or other assessment that helps to identify and correct any issues experienced during an emergency?” is another question CMS offers. More information about the listening session is on its registration page at https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/ WN_zoIS8Q6US5q4V1XGzFDatw.
Home Health & Hospice Week
- Value-Based Purchasing:
VBP Baseline Move Is A Raw Deal, HHAs Tell CMS
Suggestion: If CMS won’t keep 2019 as the baseline year, then it should postpone implementation. [...] - Education:
Make The Most Of The 4 Months Left Before VBP Implementation
If you missed the latest VBP webinar, it’s now available to review. As home health [...] - Reimbursement:
VBP Has Problems Beyond Date Change
Medicare Advantage will make HHAs’ lives difficult in even more ways under the new payment [...] - Face-To-Face:
F2F Telehealth Will End When PHE Does, CMS Confirms
But that’s not quite the whole story. Medicare officials have told providers to begin planning [...] - Mergers & Acquisitions:
PE-Backed Hospice Chain Makes Midwest Buys
Plus: Non-profit hospice affiliates with non-acute health system in Florida. Troy, Michigan-based Residential Hospice has [...] - Fraud & Abuse:
Novus Hospice Fraudsters Approach A Century Of Prison Time
The longest sentence is more than 13 years, while the most recent is for the [...] - Industry Notes:
Providers To Give CMS A Piece Of Their Minds About Emergency Prep
Watch for potential EP changes in the future. The COVID-19 public health emergency has dominated [...] - Industry Notes:
ACOs Save Medicare Big Bucks Year After Year
Whether you see ACOs as an opportunity or a hindrance — or both — they’re [...] - Industry Notes:
Tap More Detailed Help For HQRP Report Access
If your staff could use some help downloading Hospice Quality Reporting Program reports, the Centers [...] - Industry Notes:
Take An Email Break This Weekend
Hold onto that email to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services until after Labor [...] - Industry Notes:
Managed Care Enrollees Make Up Nearly Half Of Medicare Benes
The number of Medicare enrollees continues to climb. “As of May 2022, 64,553,288 people are [...] - Industry Notes:
Don't Sleep On Clerical Reopenings
Don’t waste time on an appeal when you can get a simple reopening instead. But [...] - Industry Notes:
Consult Newly Updated Guidance On Billing For Hospice Docs, NPPs
The MACs are offering a helping hand when it comes to billing hospice physician, nurse [...]
