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Tuesday, January 3, 2017   (0 Comments - view/add)
Caring for Special Needs Children Costs U.S. Families $17.6 billion in Lost Wages »
American families spend 1.5 billion hours each year providing home health care to disabled or chronically ill children, co...
Tuesday, January 3, 2017   (0 Comments - view/add)
NAHC Hot Topics – Block Grants and Per Capita Caps »
With big changes affecting the entire health care system expected in the New Year, this is an opportune time to do a deep...
Tuesday, January 3, 2017   (0 Comments - view/add)
GAO Says Medicaid Needs More Consistency in Home Care Programs »
A new Government Accountability Office (GAO) report recommends that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) u...
Tuesday, January 3, 2017   (0 Comments - view/add)
CMS Releases Second Year of Home Health Utilization and Payment Data »
CMS posted the second annual release of the home health agency Public Use File (PUF) on the Home Health Agencies Data...
Tuesday, January 3, 2017   (0 Comments - view/add)
Phase 2 of F2F Probe and Educate to Begin »
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has announced Phase 2 of the home health Face to Face encounter Pro...
Monday, December 19, 2016   (0 Comments - view/add)
December 2016 preview: Increased transparency and quality information via new Compare sites and data »
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) continues to work diligently to make health care quality informatio...
Monday, December 19, 2016   (0 Comments - view/add)
Medicare-Medicaid ACO Model joins growing number of state-based efforts to improve quality of care »
Medicare-Medicaid ACO Model joins growing number of state-based efforts to improve quality of care, lower costs Tod...
Monday, December 19, 2016   (0 Comments - view/add)
CMS Finalizes Rules for the Health Insurance Marketplace, Improving Stability »
CMS Finalizes Rules for the Health Insurance Marketplace, Improving Stability   The Centers for Medica...
Tuesday, November 15, 2016
The Top 10 Reasons Pre-Claim Review Should End »
Message from the National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC) November is Homecare and Hospice month, a ti...
Tuesday, November 1, 2016   (0 Comments - view/add)
CMS Releases Final MACRA Payment Rule »
The Centers for Medicaid and Medicare (CMS) released the highly anticipated final rule for the Medicare Access & CHIP...
Tuesday, November 1, 2016   (0 Comments - view/add)
The Department of Labor is Actively Enforcing the “Kickback” Rule »
WHEN EMPLOYERS MUST REIMBURSE EMPLOYEES FOR MILEAGE AND EXPENSES The Department of Labor is actively conducting complia...
Friday, October 28, 2016   (0 Comments - view/add)
Emergency Preparedness »
In early September, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) finalized a rule creating emergency preparedness...
Monday, October 17, 2016   (0 Comments - view/add)
CMS to Remove all Social Security Numbers from Medicare Cards by April 2019 »
Social Security Numbers (SSN) will be removed from all Medicare cards by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (C...
Monday, October 17, 2016   (0 Comments - view/add)
URGENT: Contact Your Members of Congress to Co-Sponsor the PUSH Act »
MHCA urges all member agencies to call or write their member of Congress and ask them to co-sponsor the "Pre-Claim Undermi...
Monday, October 17, 2016   (0 Comments - view/add)
Senators Klobuchar and Franken Need to Hear from You Today »
Allow Advanced Practice Professionals to Order Home Care As election day is drawing nearer, home care associations thro...
Monday, September 19, 2016   (0 Comments - view/add)
Emergency Preparedness »
On September 8, CMS finalized a rule to establish consistent emergency preparedness requirements for health care providers...
Monday, August 1, 2016   (0 Comments - view/add)
Final Fiscal Year 2017 Payment and Policy Changes for the Medicare Hospice Benefit (CMS-1652-F) »
On July 29, 2016, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a final rule outlining fiscal year (FY) 20...
Monday, August 1, 2016   (0 Comments - view/add)
PEPPER Retrieval Maps Allow Comparison By State »
Information on the percent of providers who have accessed their most recent PEPPER reports is a newly developed feature on...
Monday, July 18, 2016   (0 Comments - view/add)
HHA Peer Group Charts Available on PEPPER Website »
TMF Health Quality Institute, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS’) PEPPER contractor, has developed pe...
Tuesday, July 5, 2016   (0 Comments - view/add)
CMS Finalizes Rule Giving Providers and Employers Improved Access to Info. for Better Patient Care »
MACRA provides expanded opportunity for the use of Medicare and private sector claims data to drive higher quality, lower...

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