The National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC) has joined with a group of like-minded organizations in writin...

ElevatingHOME has confirmed that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ (CMS) Survey and Certification Group will...

The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (“MedPAC”) recently met in Washington, DC, to conduct its monthly assessment of t...

The 2018 Home Health PPS final rule was issued November 1 at the Federal Register public inspection page. The good news...

Agencies being audited should expect to have 20-40 records reviewed. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Servic...

Last week, the National Association for Home Care and Hospice (NAHC), the Partnership for Quality Home Health Care, Elevat...

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Service (CMS) has issued a draft version of the home health Conditions of Particip...

On October 12th, President Trump issued an Executive Order directing the Secretary of HHS to promulgate rules that accompl...

Are you ready for the Emergency Preparedness Procedures? They go into effect on November 15, 2017, and MDH has notified u...

Effective November 16, 2017 home health, hospice and other Medicare and Medicaid-participating providers must meet extensi...

We are at a critical stage in our quest to protect Medicare home health and need your help! All comments on the propos...

Home care and hospice won a double victory yesterday, September 26, when the United States Senate passed the CHRONIC Care...

In late July, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) issued their 2018 proposed rule for payment updates for...

We’ve all seen the footage from Houston and surrounding areas. Hurricane Harvey has wreaked havoc on the lives of so many....

The Council of States, a consortium of state home care associations, is pleased to announce the 2nd Annual Public Policy S...

On August 1, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) posted Medicare Program; FY 2018 Hospice Wage Index a...

In anticipation of Congressional visits, MHCA has prepared factsheets on: Medicare Face-to-Face...

Recently, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released the proposed CY 2018 Home Health Prospective Paym...

MHCA issued a breaking news alert on July 7th, announcing the CMS issuance of the final rule for the Home Health Conditio...

Do you utilize NGSConnex to verify Medicare eligibility for your patients? If so, have you noticed the changes recently ma...

The Council of States, a consortium of state home care associations, is pleased to announce the second annual Public Polic...

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services 42 CFR Parts 409, 410, 418, 440, 484, 485 and 488 Medicare and Medicaid P...

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has issued a new Appendix–Z to the Medicare State Operations manu...

President Donald Trump unveiled his budget proposal for 2018, which included significant cuts to Medicaid and the Children...

  We need your help! Please call your member of the U.S. House now with this message: "Oppose the latest versio...

  ElevatingHOME, a new nonprofit that brings together America’s for-profit and not-for-profit home-based health ca...

We continue to make progress on the Home Health Care Planning Improvement Act (S. 445/H.R. 1825), which would allow non-...

  As a reminder, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) finalized the Emergency Preparedness Rule...

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced Friday that it was suspending the Pre-Claim Review...

HOSPICE UPDATES:  2017 PEPPER and Quality Reporting Issues --Updated PEPPER User’s Guide Now Available! As repo...

When: Tuesday, April 25, 1 p.m. to 2 p.m. Central Daylight Time What: A WebEx presented by Kimberly Hrehor with TMF He...

On October 21, 2016, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services published the newest version of Chapter 5 of the Q...

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has announced that Pre-Claim Review will expand into its second sta...

Home Health Probe and Educate Round 2 will begin on January 19, 2017. Please note that all states are included except thos...

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has issued the final rule Home Health Conditions of Participation (Co...