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The most recent news, announcements, and regulatory updates for home health, hospice, and supportive care at home
Should Insurance Companies Own Home Health Agencies?
by Kristin Rowan, EditorAmedisys is one of the leading providers of home health, hospice, and other healthcare at home services. It operates more than 500 locations in 37 states and the District of Columbia. After acquiring Contessa Health in 2021...
EEOC Sues Licensed Home Care Agency for Discrimination
by Tim Rowan, Editor Home Care Agency Removed Black and Hispanic Home Health Aides from Assignments to Accommodate Racial Preferences of Clients, Federal Agency Charges There is a question that appears on social media chat pages with great...
No Nurse Shortage Here
by Tim Rowan, Editor When Joseph Furtado, RN, COS-C, moved from one Phoenix-area Home Health agency to another earlier this year, he faced a seemingly insurmountable problem. The new place had dropped to a 600 census during the pandemic and got...
Medicare Dollars Flow Freely to MA Plans
analysis by Tim Rowan, Editor It is good to occasionally remind ourselves that 2023 is the year enrollment in Medicare Advantage reached a full half of Medicare beneficiaries. Originally conceived as a plan to control spending, MA does seem to be...
Supreme Court Takes Action About Knowledge Required to Prove False Claims
by Elizabeth Hogue, Esq. For providers to be liable under the federal False Claims Act, enforcers must prove that they knowingly submitted false claims. The U.S. Supreme Court recently issued an opinion in United States ex rel. Schutte v....
Crackdown is Coming: Are You Paying Overtime?
by Tim Rowan, Editor T he Department of Labor, Wage and Hour Division, has selected several southeastern states as targets for its investigation into a practice that appears to be quite common, underpaying in-home caregivers. It appears, based on...
Medicare Advantage Is Neither Medicare Nor an Advantage
by Wendell Potter Medicare Advantage is a money-making scam. I should know. I helped to sell it. Right now, well-funded lobbyists from big health insurance companies are leading a campaign on Capitol Hill to get Members of Congress and Senators of...
CMS News: New Rule Cracks Down on Medicare Advantage Upcoding
by Tim Rowan, EditorThe U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, through the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, finalized the policies for the Medicare Advantage "Risk Adjustment Data Validation" program, which is CMS's primary...
Insurance Industry Insider Instructs Providers
September 16, 2020 by Wendell Potter (Adapted with permission from an article posted on the author's Twitter feed. –Editor) My former colleagues in the health insurance industry claim they are waiving all costs of testing and treatment for...
Bi-Partisan Congressional Committees Demand CMS Administrator Repay Misspent Funds
his month, two House committees and two Senate committees published a report of a joint investigation into Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator Seema Verma's spending of taxpayer funds. The complete 56-page report is available...
New Training, New HH Compare
Home Health Quality Reporting Training September 01, 2020 Introduction to the Home Health Quality Reporting Program Web-Based Training The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is offering a web-based training course for those who are new to...
New COVID Evidence Changes the Way Healthcare is Delivered
by Tim Rowan, Editor In its August 12 edition, Smithsonian Magazine summarized new research conducted by epidemiologists and published both in The New England Journal of Medicine and a bulletin of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention....
Boston’s Partners Home Care Selects ViTel Net Home Telemonitors
Following a selection process that has gone on for two years but intensified over the last six months, Partners Home Care announced that it has selected McLean, Virginia’s Visual Telecommunications Networks Inc. (ViTel Net) to bring...
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