Home Health Quality Assurance: 2018 COP Requirements
The new COPs require a heavy data driven QAPI program that agencies can utilize as justification of care and the defense of having a home health license to operate. However, …
Insights and News
Humana Kindred Merger
Humana along with two undisclosed private equity groups have partnered to purchase the home health agency segment of Kindred. The long term care, nursing homes and specialty hospitals will be …
Medicaid Work Requirement
Ten states have requested and been granted permission from CMS to require certain able-bodied Medicaid recipients to work in exchange for benefits. In what might be a shocking surprise to …
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 …
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 …