Home Health & Hospice Week
Keep Tabs On Your Internal QM Stats During Compare Freeze
Medicare still will share updated QRP figures. More than the weather is frozen, Medicare officials reminded attendees of the latest Open Door Forum for home health and hospice providers. Starting last month, home health and hospice agencies’ publicly reported data on Care Compare is frozen through November 2021, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services personnel told agencies in the Dec. 16 forum. That includes HHA star ratings, a CMS staffer pointed out. In December, the “streamlined” Care Compare site replaced the separate Home Health Compare and Hospice Compare websites, as well as the Compare sites for six other provider types, a CMS source reminded forum attendees. CMS is freezing publicly reported data due to the COVID-19 public health emergency. While agencies’ public numbers will be static for the next year, they still will receive confidential quality measure reports with updated statistics throughout the year, the CMS official confirmed. However, CMS won’t issue preview reports. Note: Care Compare is at www.medicare.gov/care-compare.
Home Health & Hospice Week
- Legislation:
Latest COVID Relief Package Contains Hits, Misses For Home Health & Hospice
Latest COVID Relief Package Contains Hits, Misses For Home Health & Hospice After Congress stalled [...] - Finance:
More Provider Relief Fund Money On The Way
Does new ‘lost revenues’ clarification help or hurt agencies? The feds put Provider Relief Fund [...] - Hospice:
Coronavirus Relief Package Also Relieves Hospice Survey Woes
But surveys will come every 6 months in ‘special focus’ program and alternative sanctions are [...] - Surveys and Certification:
All Hospice Survey Results Available Online Soon
Accrediting body surveys no longer exempt, starting this fall. In addition to a raft of [...] - Mergers & Acquisitions:
A New Year Brings Many Newly Merged And Acquired Home Health, Hospice Companies
2 powerhouse chains will offer referral sources streamlined option. As the year wound down, so [...] - Quality:
Keep Tabs On Your Internal QM Stats During Compare Freeze
Medicare still will share updated QRP figures. More than the weather is frozen, Medicare officials [...] - Industry Notes:
Hospice Owner Sentenced To 20 Years
The owner of a chain of Texas hospices has been sentenced to 20 years in [...] - Industry Notes:
Home Health Spending Revs Up In Latest Year
Medicare, Medicaid made up 71 percent of home health spending in 2019, according to CMS. [...] - Industry Notes:
COVID-19 Relief Package Brings Rural Hospice Change For The Better
A change included in the newly enacted COVID-19 relief package may help patients access hospice [...] - Industry Notes:
MCFUs Put HCBS Patient Abuse, Neglect In Their Crosshairs
More provisions from the newly enacted COVID-19 relief package that may affect home health and [...] - Industry Notes:
RCD Gets With The Maintenance Therapy Program
With the new year comes a change that will clear up a Review Choice Demonstration [...] - Industry Notes:
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