The issuance of the Home Health Final Rule brings with it the opportunity to re-evaluate the financial position of your agency. If your agency has not yet begun to analyze this data, in particular the updated comorbidity adjustments, let me help you with a brief update. According to the final rule, only those subgroups of…
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Hospice Final Rule Implementation
Just over the horizon, October and everything pumpkin is approaching. This means the implementation of the hospice final rule for FY 2023–beginning on October 1st. This year’s final rule includes a rate increase of 3.8% for those hospices who submit required quality data. For those who don’t comply, a 2% payment penalty is assessed to…
Allowed Practitioners
Recently, CMS issued a revision to a previously released transmittal—Change Request 12615. The subject was an update to Chapter 7, Home Health Services in the Medicare Benefit Policy Manual. One of the items included in this transmittal was a clarification of the rule change from the CARES Act which allows clinical nurse specialists, physician’s assistants,…
CMS Updates
CMS recently updated the Code of Federal Regulations for Home Health Services (Part 484) as well as the Medicare Benefit Policy Manuals—Chapter 7 for Home Health Agencies. The changes reflect alterations in the Conditions of Participation released in the home health final rule last year and became effective on January 1, 2022. There is always…
Home Health & Hospice Regulatory Updates
The first week of November has been newsworthy for the home health and hospice care sectors. The Home Health Final Rule, CMS-1747-F, was released on Tuesday afternoon. If that wasn’t enough to digest, both OSHA and CMS released rules on COVID-19 vaccination. There’s a lot of information to be processed in the coming days. However…
