Home Health Care Policies: Report on the “Rising Cost of Living Longer”
Home Health Care Policies- The Kaiser Family Foundation has published some highly informative reports regarding health care spending lately. This week KFF released a report outlining the cost of living longer and an analysis of year-by-year spending for elderly patients. More...
Home Health Care Policies: Overtime Protections Overturned by Federal Court
Home Health Care Policies- Today, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia struck down proposed overtime protection rules for home care employees in a final ruling.
Home Health Care Policies: New Info for Hospice CAHPS Exemptions
Home Health Care Policies - Recently, CMS has issued additional information for hospices wishing to gain an exemption to participation in the hospice CAHPS program. A form is available for agency’s wishing to apply for exemption due to size of hospice program. The application is titled
Get Training for ICD-10-CM for Home Health Coding
Why are we switching to ICD-10-CM for Home Health Coding?
There have been delays…
On January 16, 2009, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) published a regulation requiring the replacement of ICD-9 with ICD-10 as of October 1, 2013. In February 2012, HHS announced it was...
Home Health Management: Study Finds Home Care Accountability Lacking
An Home Health Management investigation recently conducted by Kaiser Health News suggests that despite the effectiveness of home care, there is still a large number of untrained staff members throughout the nation remain undertrained or lack the appropriate scrutiny of their...
Home Health Care Policies: Face to Face Requirement Lawsuit Proceeds
Home Health Care Policies- The National Association for Home Care and Hospice (NAHC) has filed a lawsuit this year challenging the face-to-face requirements set forth by CMS. Last June, the NAHC board of directors approved the lawsuit to be set forth and remarked that the regulations...
Home Health Care Policies: Court Blocks Home Care Overtime Protections
Home health care policies ... over the Christmas holidays, the Federal Court struck down some of the proposed overtime rules and protections for home health employees and issued a 14-day stay on the ruling to analyze the plaintiffs’ arguments. The rules were highly opposed by many...
Home Health Care Policies: Medicare Spending Slows Down
Home Health Care Policies- Recently, a report published by the Kaiser Family Foundation has been published in attempts to explain the slowdown in Medicare spending throughout the past few years. In 2009, the Congressional Budget Office forecasted Medicare spending to reach $760 billion...
