Article via NAHC The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has issued Change Request (CR) 10992 whi...

A reminder to Medicare certified home health agencies: your updated Medicare Bill of Rights must be distributed by Decembe...

Article courtesy of NAHC The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a Paperwork Reduction Act...

The next Home Health, Hospice & DME Open Door Forum is scheduled for Wednesday, November 14, 2018 at 1:00-2:30 PM CT....

Article courtesy of NAHC On October 3, 2018, The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a propo...

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued the CY 2019 Medicare Home Health Prospective Payment System...

Have you accessed your PEPPER? Not sure what a PEPPER is? Click here for a review from the MHCA Medicare Team. The lates...

CMS will be hosting a national call on Wednesday, November 7, 2018 from 12-2pm CDT to solicit stakeholder feedback on Ele...

Late last week, a bill was introduced in the US House of Representatives that would eliminate the Centers for Medicare and...

Article via the National Association for Home Care and Hospice Last month, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid...

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has issued Change Request 10789 that adds a new section to the Me...

Article courtesy of NAHC . Medicare-participating providers are required to determine whether Medicare is a primary...

The Q4CY17 release of the Home Health Agency (HHA) Program for Evaluating Payment Patterns Electronic Report (PEPPER) with...

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Office of Inspector General (OIG) has issued a revised work plan tha...

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) will hold a home health and hospice Open Door Forum on Wednesday, J...

CMS opened the Fourth of July week with its own fireworks that blasted into the world of home health care at 4:15PMMonday....

President Trump signed into law the Right to Try Act on Wednesday, May 30, 2018, a piece of legislation he called for i...

CMS recently announced the likely return of pre-claim reviews in Medicare home health, with a start date of “no earlier th...

Do you have questions about labor and wage issues? The following from the US Department of Labor may answer some of your q...

Do you have questions about labor and wage issues? The following from the US Department of Labor may answer some of your q...

By Lisa Meadows, Clinical Compliance Educator for Home Health, Hospice, and Private Duty – Accreditation Commission for He...

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has announced an opportunity for the public to comments on two home...

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has issued Change Request 10443 that updates Medicare Program Integ...

The Q4FY17 release of the Hospice Program for Evaluating Payment Patterns Electronic Report (PEPPER) with statistics throu...

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has contracted with RTI International and Abt Associates to further...

The TMF Health Quality Institute will hold a Hospice PEPPER Review WebEx on Thursday, April 26, 2018, to coincide with the...

CMS held an Home Health, Hospice & DME Open Door Forum on February 28, 2018. A summary of the call follows....

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently announced that non-skilled in-home care will be included i...

The Bipartisan Budget Act was recently signed into law. This legislation includes language from the U.S. House of Represen...

The year 2018 projects to be an interesting one in the halls of the United States Congress. As the majority party in both...

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) will host a special Open Door Forum (ODF) conference call to allow...

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is launching a new Low Volume Appeals (LVA) Initiative to help addr...

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) will start mailing out the new Medicare cards with new Medicare Benef...

The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) meets each year in December and January to consider Medicare payment rec...

The most recent meeting of the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) considered a draft recommendation to reduce p...