Home Health
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Oct. 29 released the home health (HH) prospective payment system (PPS) final rule for calendar year (CY) 2016. Highlights of the rule follow in this Bulletin.
CMS yesterday issued a proposed rule revising discharge planning requirements for hospitals (including long-term care hospitals and inpatient rehabilitation facilities), critical access hospitals (CAHs) and home health agencies (HHAs) that participate in the Medicare and Medicaid programs.
The AHA Friday urged the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to withdraw a proposed 3.41% coding cut in its proposed rule for the home health prospective payment system in calendar year 2016. The rule bases the proposed cut on an analysis of nominal case-mix change in CYs 2000 through 2009…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) on July 8 released the physician fee schedule (PFS) proposed rule for calendar year (CY) 2016.
We support the proposed rule. We applaud CMS for continuing to update CoPs for health care providers and to ensure that regulations are current, reflect the best and most recent knowledge about care delivery, and embody high expectations for quality of care.
Signed into law on Oct. 6, the Improving Medicare Post-Acute Care Transformation (IMPACT) Act of 2014 expands the reporting requirements for post-acute care (PAC) providers.