Home Health Care Policies: States Challenge Home Health Wage Block
Home Health Care Policies - On Monday, state officials in New York, Illinois, Massachusetts, and New Mexico filed a case regarding minimum wage and overtime pay for home health workers. A brief in the filed case states that the Department of Labor does, in fact, have the authority to...
Study of Retirees Concludes that Home Health Care is Preferred
A new retirement study conducted by Merrill Lynch and Age Wave polled the preferences of retirees aged 50 or older to determine their preferred long-term care method. The results concluded that the majority chose prefer home health care within their own home as their primary chosen...
Home Health Care Management : ICD-10 Testing Results Published
Late last week, CMS published results of the current end-to-end testing for the new ICD-10 coding system. Multiple stakeholders within the industry took part in the testing, including: providers, billing agencies, and equipment providers, and home health care management. CMS currently...
Home Health Care Management : Latest Results for Value-Based Modifiers
Home Health Care Management- The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has posted the results from the first year’s implementation of the Value-based Payment Modifier (Value Modifier). The Value Modifier is a component of the Affordable Care Act and rewards physicians or...
Home Health and Assisted Living Care Costs Compared in Hospice Report
A report recently published by the Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (OIG) has found that payments via Medicare for hospice services in assisted living facilities have increased nearly twofold in the past five years when cared to other options such as home health...
Home Health Care Policies: CMS Publishes Changes to Nursing Home Ratings
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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) today strengthened the Five Star Quality Rating System for Nursing Homes on the Nursing Home Compare website to give families more precise and meaningful information on quality when they consider facilities...
Home Health Care Policies: CMS Announces Add-On Payment Changes
Home Health Care Policies- The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) recently announced that home health providers’ billing department should educate themselves on new requirements set forth with the intention of improving existing payment policy enforcements.
Home Health Policies and Procedures Effectively Lower Rehospitalization
A recent report has shown that home health agencies are outperforming their post-acute counterparts as a whole in terms of rehospitalization rates. Data released last Wednesday by the Alliance for Home Health Quality and Innovation shows that home health agencies have markedly improved...
