HIPAA Compliance: Texting Regulation and Guidance
Almost all home health agencies have one thing in common: staff text each other about patients. But the methods in which they text each other has now created a new …
Insights and News
Home Health Conditions of Participation Go Live!
Welcome 2018 … and welcome new Medicare Conditions of Participation (COPs). While many set goals for the New Year and hope for success, many agencies are following one basic mantra: …
OASIS C2 – Effective January 1, 2017
The new version of the OASIS is here and will be required on January 1st. In order to help your agency be ready, we’ve concentrated on the biggest changes that …
Trump Administration: Updates
The past few weeks have been quite busy for President-Elect Trump. In order to maintain his campaign promise of repealing and replacing ObamaCare, President-Elect Trump has nominated his administration’s Health …
Important Changes for 2017
Home Health veterans know that each year new challenges, regulations, and clinical measures will be put into place. 2017 is not going to be any different. With pre-claim review ramping …
OVERTIME RULE BLOCKED!
Agencies and providers are receiving an early holiday gift this year! The ruling has just been released. The DOL’s overtime rule which was to go into effect on December 1st …
What We Hear: November, 2016
The Final Rule for 2016 is pretty much what we expected. From the continued cuts and the introduction of Value Based Purchasing, CMS continues to punish home health. While CMS …
2017 Final Rule
2017 won’t be reversing the trend of continued reimbursement cuts your agency has experienced since the Affordable Care Act (ObamaCare) was passed. However 2017 is likely to bring about other …
What a Trump Presidency and Administration Means for You and Your Agency
In the early morning hours of November 9, 2016, Americans who stayed up late enough, received the news that the next president of the US would be, without a doubt, …
Fraud and Corporate Integrity Agreements
Kindred Health Care, one of the country’s largest providers of home health, hospice and skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) has been hit very hard with a large penalty. The $3 million …