Home Health & Hospice Week
Industry Notes:
Take An Email Break This Weekend
Published on Fri Sep 02, 2022
Hold onto that email to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services until after Labor Day is over — more than a day after, precisely. Why? “CMS email will be unavailable starting Friday, Sept-ember 2 at 8 pm EDT, and ending on Tuesday, September 6,”CMS says in a message to providers. “To ensure your email is received, please refrain from sending any emails from September 2nd through September 6th.”
Other Articles in this issue of
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 [...]
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