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Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLP

U.S. Labor Department Proposes Expanding FLSA Exemption for Home Care Services

Earlier this month, the U.S. Department of Labor proposed regulations that would substantially reduce overtime obligations for home care and related employers. ...more

Holland & Knight LLP

CMS Releases CY 2026 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule Proposed Rule

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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) on July 14, 2025, issued the calendar year (CY) 2026 Proposed Rule, which proposes payment policies and other outpatient services covered under Medicare Part B. Comments are...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

Report on Medicare Compliance Volume 28, Number 42. News Briefs: November 2019 #4

Report on Medicare Compliance 28, no. 42 (November 25, 2019) - In a surprising CMS memo that just surfaced, top CMS attorneys echo the sentiments of the Department of Justice about the limits of enforcement actions based...more

Robinson+Cole Health Law Diagnosis

CMS Finalizes 2020 Home Health Agency Payment and Policy Changes

On October 31, 2019, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) finalized its 2020 payment and policy changes rule for Home Health Agencies (HHA Rule).  The final rule is scheduled to be posted in the Federal...more

Poyner Spruill LLP

CMS Proposes Revisions to Hospice and Home Health Conditions of Participation

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The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) recently issued a proposed rule — Medicare and Medicaid Programs; Regulatory Provisions To Promote Program Efficiency, Transparency, and Burden Reduction — to revise...more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

CMS Continues Shift toward Value-Based Payments with New Home Health Groupings Model in Proposal - Healthcare Alert

On July 2, 2018, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) published its annual proposed rule outlining both payment and policy changes for home health agencies. In a press release announcing the proposed rule, CMS...more

Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLP

What Home Health Agencies Need to Know as Federal Government Restarts Burdensome Pre-Claim Review, Offering ‘Choice’ of Punishment

Shortly after Memorial Day 2018, the federal government announced its plan to bring back a payment review project that puts significant administrative burdens on home health agencies. Originally called the Pre-Claim Review...more

King & Spalding

Also In The News - Health Headlines - July 2016

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CMS Proposes Home Health Payment Reduction in 2017 – On June 27, 2016, CMS released a proposed rule that would decrease payments to home health providers by one percent, or $180 million, in calendar year 2017. Home health...more

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CMS Proposes Initiative to Tie Home Health Payments to Quality Performance

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On July 10, 2015, CMS published in the Federal Register the CY 2016 Home Health Prospective Payment System proposed rule effective for episodes ending on or after January 1, 2016. CMS estimates that the net impact of the...more

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CMS Proposes Value-Based Purchasing Model, Other Updates to the 2016 Home Health Prospective Payment System

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The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) published its proposed update to the home health prospective payment system (HHPPS) for calendar year (CY) 2016 in the July...more

Mintz - Health Care Viewpoints

Delivery System Reform 2.0: Scaling Alternative Payment Models is the New Normal

For some health care providers, a pair of recent announcements made by the Obama Administration to implement mandatory alternative payment models (APMs) for home health value-based purchasing and bundled payments for hip and...more

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