Home Health
Regulatory Advisory: Home Health PPS Final Rule: CY 2019 Update and CY 2020 Payment System Redesign
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The payment update for CY 2019 is relatively straight forward; however, the substantial re-design for CY 2020 brings a complex transformation to the field. Overall, we support the design of the new model, which shifts resources to the medically-…
Leveraging home health and other post-acute programs/tools to assist hospitals in achieving their value based purchasing goals and preventing readmission
Held Nov. 13, 2018
The Penn Home Care and Hospice Service model has identified interrelated goals to focus their efforts to align with Penn…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services plans to roll out its revised claim-review demonstration for Medicare fee-for-service home health services beginning Dec. 10 in Illinois.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Oct. 31 issued a final rule that updates the home health (HH) prospective payment system (PPS) for calendar year (CY) 2019 and also makes changes to the HH quality reporting program. In addition, in accordance with the statutory mandate in the…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services today released the home health prospective payment system final rule for calendar year 2019, which finalizes a major redesign for CY 2020.
AHA Aug. 31 expressed support for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ efforts to develop an alternative to the current home health case-mix system, but urged the agency to continue to refine the proposed patient-driven groupings model to address provider concerns.
AHA comments on the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ calendar year 2019 proposed rule for the Home Health prospective payment system.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services today extended for another six months its moratoria on enrollment of new Medicare home health agencies in Florida, Illinois, Michigan and Texas, and on new Part B non-emergency ground ambulance suppliers in New Jersey and Pennsylvania.
AHA comments on the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services' agency information collection notice on the home health “Review Choice” demonstration.