Last week the U.S. Small Business Administration’s Office of Advocacy sent a letter to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) requesting more evidence to back up the agency’s estimate for the impact of its proposed rule to adjust the home health prospective payment system. CMS published a proposed rule on July 3, 2013 […]
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Fears of closing and possible mergers are on the minds of home health agencies as they are expected to operate under proposed Medicare cuts, reports Crain’s Detroit Business. The resulting impact under the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) proposed rule can lead to many home health agencies either closing their doors or as acquisition opportunities […]
Seniors vastly oppose additional cuts to the Medicare home health benefit, with nearly 90% voicing concerns that cuts would do more harm than good, according to new polling data from Bring the Vote Home. An initiative created to help seniors, disabled Americans, their family members and their home healthcare clinicians participate in the nation’s democratic […]
The home health sector accounted for nearly a third of all health care job growth in August, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ most recent jobs report. Since 2012, home health has contributed more than 93,000 new jobs to the U.S. economy, with 9,500 added in August. That represents more than 30% of the […]
The National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC) is partnering with several home health care trade associations to provide resources to industry participants outlining the financial impact of proposed home health rebasing that would cut Medicare reimbursements by 14%. NAHC’s Legislative Action Network has teamed up with the Alliance for Home Health Quality and […]
Home health industry leaders gathered today for a teleconference to discuss the alarming impacts of a rule that would bring Medicare payment cuts to tally nearly $100 billion in the coming years. The proposed rebasing rule from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) looks to cut Medicare reimbursement payments 3.5% annually from 2014 […]
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) recently launched an initiative meant to accelerate health information exchange (HIE) across acute and post-acute care settings, including home health. On August 7, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) held a webinar on the […]
Three Republican senators voiced support Wednesday for the temporary moratorium the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently placed on certain cities for new home health care providers to be enrolled in Medicare. Senators Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), and Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) welcomed the action, a tool provided under the Affordable Care […]
A report from the Office of the Inspector General of the Department of Health and Human Services finds that 11 states have improper restrictions on eligibility requirements for Medicaid home health benefits by requiring them to be homebound. The OIG report, sent on July 1 to Marilyn Tavenner, the administrator for the Centers for Medicare […]
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) have issued a final rule that outlines the roles and responsibilities for developing a written agreement between long-term care (LTC) and hospice providers, should a LTC resident or patient elect to receive hospice care. Under the rule, a LTC facility will be required to have only one […]
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