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Potential Changes Coming to Medicare Provider Enrollment and DMEPOS Accreditation

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Often there is a lot of attention paid to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) Inpatient Prospective Payment System (“IPPS”), Outpatient Prospective Payment System (“OPPS”), and Medicare Physician Fee Schedule...more

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Policy Update - CMS Releases Final Rule: Medicaid Program; Ensuring Access to Medicaid Services

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On April 22, 2024 the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) published the Medicaid Program; Ensuring Access to Medicaid Services final rule. The rule has a particular focus on home- and community-based services...more

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With Telehealth on OIG Work Plan, Beware Pitfalls; CMS Proposes HHA Telehealth Past PHE

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Report on Medicare Compliance 29, no. 25 (July 13, 2020)  - When a physician’s telehealth visit with a Medicare patient on FaceTime cut out after five minutes, they shifted to an audio-only visit, with the physician and...more

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Home Health COVID-19 Telecommunications Technology Expansions are Here to Stay

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On June 25, 2020, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a proposed rule to make permanent all the flexibilities concerning the use of technology and telecommunications systems introduced for home health...more

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OIG Submits Spring 2019 Semiannual Report to Congress

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The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Inspector General (OIG), recently published its Spring 2019 Semiannual Report to Congress. The report, released June 3, 2019, covers the period October 1, 2018...more

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New Horizons Calling for Action Under Home Health Agency Final Rule

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On November 13, 2018, CMS/HHS published in the Federal Register the Home Health Final Rule. 83 FR 56406 (Nov. 13, 2018). We provided an overview of the proposed rule in Payment Matters on September 14, 2018. Home health...more

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CMS Transmittal Instructions Issued to MACs to Prevent Misuse of RAP Requests

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On October 26, 2018, CMS published Transmittal 839 (Change Request 10789) in the Medicare Program Integrity Manual (Pub. 100-08, Chapter 4/4.5 – 4/4.5.5). This Transmittal is meant to convey instructions to Medicare...more

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If You're Reading This, You're Too Late: Key Drivers in Rising Health Care Defaults

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Health care bankruptcy filings more than tripled in 2017 as compared to 2016 with no end in sight to the financial struggles facing owners and operators in the sector. According to Bloomberg, health care bankruptcies have...more

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Final Home Health Rule Drops Controversial Proposed Payment Model

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Last week, home health agencies welcomed the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services' (CMS) decision to drop a controversial proposed payment model and leave largely unchanged the current payment system. Responding to...more

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CMS Proposes CY 2017 Home Health PPS Rate, Updates to ValueBased Purchasing Model and Quality Reporting

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The US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released proposed updates to its Calendar Year (CY) 2017 Home Health Prospective Payment System (HH PPS) in the July 5, 2016,...more

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Home Health PPS CY 2017 Proposed Rule: Payments Rebased, Quality Measures Updated

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Downward adjustments to home health episode payments arising from rebasing of the national payment rates, case mix adjustments, and an increase to the fixed dollar loss ratio for calculating outliers will result in an overall...more

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