Home Health & Hospice Week
Industry Notes:
HQRP Intro Materials Get A Facelift
Published on Fri Jun 02, 2023
Check out an updated version of Medicare鈥檚 Introduction to the Hospice Quality Reporting Program training. Links to the Web-Based Training two-part series are at 鈥� scroll down to the May 30 post.
Other Articles in this issue of
Home Health & Hospice Week
- Covid-19:
Start The Countdown To Dropping COVID-19 Vaccination Mandate
New vaccination quality measures may affect Compare, VBP instead of surveys, rule says. Providers wondering [...] - Value-Based Purchasing:
Brace For CAHPS Score Drops Under VBP
Turn this negative into a positive with preemptive action Another sign that Medicare rushed the [...] - Education:
Correct Your OASIS Data Quickly If You Want It To Count For VBP
Plus: Medicare offers 2 new Value-Based Purchasing educational tools. A new month brings a new [...] - Labor Law:
Non-Competes Take Another Drubbing
NLRB head takes a turn targeting the arrangements. Prospects for holding onto your non-competes may [...] - Industry Notes:
Debt Ceiling Legislation Claws Back Unspent COVID Funds
Package spending increase 鈥榠nsufficient,鈥� rep says. The deal to suspend the $31.4 trillion debt ceiling [...] - Industry Notes:
OIG Urges Qui Tam Relators To Step Up
A federal watchdog agency is on the prowl for more whistleblowers. 鈥淲histleblowers are integral to [...] - Industry Notes:
Faulty Inflation Math Means Hospices Should Get 3.7% Pay Bump, Reps Say
It鈥檚 not just home health agencies that should receive a positive payment adjustment due to [...] - Industry Notes:
Heed New WHD Clarification On FMLA Calculations
The fate of non-competes isn鈥檛 the only thing you have to worry about in the [...] - Industry Notes:
HQRP Intro Materials Get A Facelift
Check out an updated version of Medicare鈥檚 Introduction to the Hospice Quality Reporting Program training. [...] - Industry Notes:
Alive Hospice Sale Drama Continues
A longtime nonprofit hospice in Tennessee continues to get flack about a potential sale to [...] - Industry Notes:
Keep Up With Post-PHE Billing Requirements
Don鈥檛 forget to fine tune your billing if you鈥檝e been using the CR modifier and [...] - Industry Notes:
Avoid Penalties By Reviewing Medicare Overpayment Basics
Don鈥檛 overlook overpayments as a source of risk. According to the Centers for Medicare & [...] - Industry Notes:
HHA Owner Headed To The Slammer
More than 15 months after pleading guilty to Medicare fraud, a Houston home health agency [...] - Industry Notes:
Home Health, Hospice Clinicians Hold Strike Vote
Unionization is still alive and well in home health. Case in point: At press time, [...]
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