As healthcare continues to evolve, new groups are forming – ACOs.  Accountable Care Organizations or ACOs are becoming the newest and hottest trend in healthcare.  From hospital systems to physician …

Medical Review Additional Documentation Requests (ADR) have begun.  We were first notified in the fall about this new type of ADR that selects episodes that began after August 1, 2015 …

MedPac seems to come out with their recommendations a few times a year and each time, it reinforces the point that the advisory committee is not working within the reality …

Two senators have introduced legislation to allow Occupational Therapists to finally open patients with a SOC OASIS.  The Medicare Home Health Flexibility Act of 2015 (S. 2364) would allow an …

CMS is continuing with its transparency initiative and releasing more data about your home health agency.  Data that has been released is from 2013, but provides very interesting benchmarking data …

On January 1, 2017, OASIS-C2 will be released.  The newest iteration of the OASIS will be complying with the 2014 IMPACT Act. The changes will include more standardized data collection …

A New York based home health agency is alleged to have violated the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) and many other New York State labor laws. The agency, Chinese-American Planning …

Now that we have entered January, is your agency ready with a plan of action? Maybe your budget is done, but have you thought about other areas of your organization? …

CMS has provided some helpful tips on the Value Based Purchasing pilot that is going to affect 9 states (Arizona, Florida, Iowa, Massachusetts, Maryland, Nebraska, North Carolina, Tennessee and Washington).  …

The Innovation Act signed into law recently expands many opportunities for home health agencies.  The signing opens up the PACE program (Programs for All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly) to elderly …