States are using Medicaid funding to pay for behavioral health and substance use disorder treatment at non-federally approved facilities, according to a report from MACPAC released this month. Like many …
MassHealth is amending the Personal Care Attendant program regulations to update and clarify certain requirements of the MassHealth Personal Care Attendant (PCA) program. The amendments promote the effective operation of …
This Wednesday, January 8th at 2:00 PM Eastern Time (ET), CMS is hosting the next Home Health, Hospice, and DME Open Door Forum. This call will be Conference Call Only. To …
From Modern Healthcare: “A proposal to ramp up reporting requirements is threatening one of skilled nursing operators’ most significant revenue streams and could dent profitability, analysts said.” “CMS’ proposed new rule would …
From CMS: Hospice provider preview reports and Hospice CAHPS Survey provider preview reports have been updated and are now available. These two separate reports are available in your CASPER non-validation …
From CMS’ Open Door Forum: “Abt Associates is currently recruiting hospice providers to participate in a field test (called an alpha test) of the new hospice patient assessment instrument, titled …
CMS has released a fact sheet about VBID which, among many changes, includes the Medicare Advantage Carve-In Demonstration for hospice. From CMS: CY 2021 VBID Request for Applications CMS is …
CMS finished mailing new Medicare cards. The new cards without Social Security numbers offer better identity protection. Help protect your patient’s personal identity by getting their new Medicare Beneficiary Identifier …
A federal appeals court ruled on Wednesday that the Affordable Care Act’s individual mandate is unconstitutional, but it stopped short of striking down the entire healthcare law. Two judges on the three-judge …
CMS has posted two documents that articulate key information about efforts to develop a new patient assessment tool for hospice to be proposed in future rulemaking. The Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) …
