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 …
Marketing: The Personal Touch Goes a Long Way
Are you actively marketing? Do you have staff meeting with referral sources and providing valuable information besides brochures, post-its, and pens? If you do have staff marketing, are they asking …
Pre-Claim Review: Delayed… For Now
Agencies in the next 4 of the 5 demonstration states are getting a temporary reprieve… implementation of pre-claim reviews has been postponed while CMS and the effected Intermediaries figure out …
Hospice: Media Scrutiny Over Early Admissions
The Washington Post and a few other local media outlets around the country have started to look into hospice providers who place patients on service who don’t need the service. …