A Chicago-area HHA received a $7.5 million overpayment bill from the OIG. This is the OIG statement on one example case among many.
DHHS and CMS finally agree to put patients in control of their own health data, Seema Verma told a HIMSS18 audience.
The answer is ‘yes’ but do they pay home health? Maybe.
Delayed by CMS at the behest of the industry, HHGM was included in an obscure amendment to a budget bill and passed into law on February 9. In a 3-part series beginning this week, guest author Michael McGowan unpacks what this means to HHAs.
At this year’s Annual Meeting, the path toward “NAHC 2.0” was laid out by its Interim President. We spoke to him about what comes next.
That Was The Year That Was!
We reported in our October 30 issue about the incident that created a rift between the National Association for Home Care and Hospice and its affiliate organization, the Forum of State Association Directors. New developments in the last two weeks indicate that rift may be wider than first thought.
Two bills currently making their way through Congressional committees, one in each chamber, would lift the ban on clinicians caring for patients across state lines with telehealth technologies.
On September 18, 133 Members of the U.S. House of Representatives, from both sides of the aisle, delivered a letter to CMS Acting Administrator Andy Slavitt expressing their deep concern with proposed Medicare home health funding cuts. On September 24, a bipartisan group of Senators followed up with their own letter expressing the same […]
By Tim Rowan Last week, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT released the final Federal Health IT Strategic Plan for 2015 to 2020,
