Every year, industry stakeholders anticipate the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) release of the home health proposed payment rule and the final rule. The final rule’s provisions and updates determine what the Medicare home health landscape will look like for the foreseeable future, but sometimes providers aren’t well-versed on the ins and […]
The boards of two of the most prominent home-based care associations are coming together to explore the formation of a new organization. On Thursday, the National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC) and the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO) announced that their boards signed a non-binding letter of intent to pursue a […]
Two of home health care’s biggest advocacy organizations have joined forces on a proposed payment rule pre-comment letter addressed to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). On Friday, the National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC) and the Partnership for Quality Home Healthcare (PQHH) submitted a joint comment letter that called for […]
A recent Federal Trade Commission (FTC) proposal focused on health care dealmaking could create roadblocks for future home-based care deals. Last month, the antitrust agency rolled out a proposed rule that would force merging companies to disclose information regarding minority investors, supplier agreements, subsidies from foreign entities, past acquisitions and workforce data. That would be […]
Home-based care providers working with Medicaid managed care plans have to navigate an operating environment that is more administratively complex. That’s one of the key takeaways from a recent webinar hosted by the National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC). Since 2020, states like North Carolina, Oklahoma and Idaho have implemented managed care programs. […]
The National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC) is suing the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) after the agency proposed further home health payment rate cuts last week. The organization announced that it filed a lawsuit against CMS and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Thursday. CMS’ latest proposal […]
Home health stakeholders are urging the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to address an alleged forecast error in the home health market basket for 2021 and 2022. Broadly, CMS calculates the expected impact of cost inflation for home health agencies annually. In order to do this, CMS relies on a forecasting methodology from […]
Many home-based care providers tend to offer both home health and hospice services. Thus, home health leaders pay close attention to proposed rules in hospice. Home health providers are still weeks away from getting a glimpse at their proposed rule for 2024. In terms of the main provisions, the proposed rule for hospice doesn’t contain […]
The Biden administration announced on Monday that COVID-19 vaccine requirements in place for federal employees and contractors will come to an end on May 11. For home-based care providers working under Medicare and Medicaid, this is seemingly the end of COVID-19 vaccine mandates for staff. The Biden administration citied a 95% decline in COVID-19 deaths, […]
With Medicare Advantage (MA) enrollment poised to surpass traditional Medicare, home health providers will be forced to engage with plans, or otherwise, be left behind. That’s according to William A. Dombi, the president of the National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC). Dombi expressed this viewpoint during his keynote speech at the Illinois HomeCare […]
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