by Kristin Rowan | Mar 20, 2024 | CMS, Vendor Watch
From the NAHC News Desk, March 19, 2024 On March 15th, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a Center Informational Bulletin (CIB) that provides guidance and flexibilities to mitigate the impacts on providers resulting from the Change...
by Tim Rowan | Mar 20, 2024 | CMS, Editorial
by Tim Rowan, Editor Emeritus This week, we look at the state of the healthcare industry, vis a vis payers that do not pay. While Home Health and Hospice leaders talk at every gathering about refusing to accept Medicare Advantage clients, some large Integrated...
by Kristin Rowan | Mar 13, 2024 | Clinical, CMS
By Kristin Rowan, Editor March 12, 2024, the National Association for Home Care and Hospice (NAHC), Leading Age, the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO), and the National Partnership for Healthcare and Hospice Innovation (NPHI), published their...
by Rowan Report | Mar 6, 2024 | Regulatory
From the NAHC News Desk, Late on Monday, March 4, the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) announced it plans to formally end the Value-Based Insurance Design (VBID) Medicare Advantage hospice “carve-in” demonstration on December 31, 2024, and that it...
by Elizabeth E. Hogue, Esq. | Mar 6, 2024 | Admin, CMS, Regulatory
by Elizabeth E. Hogue, Esq., CMS recently issued guidance about how to build and maintain worker registries, i.e., management platforms, that make qualified health workers easy to find so that more individuals who receive Medicaid-covered home and community-based...
by Kristin Rowan | Feb 21, 2024 | Clinical, Regulatory
By Kristin Rowan, Editor Federal Waiver Program In 2020, CMS launched a hospital care at home program to help increase patient capacity during the height of the Covid-19 pandemic. The study included 300 hospitals and thousands of patients receiving care in their home...
by Kristin Rowan | Jan 31, 2024 | Clinical
By Kristin Rowan, Editor The National Association for Home Care and Hospice joined other advocacy groups this month on Capitol Hill to fight against the looming pay cuts from CMS. Some members of Congress joined the fight for “common sense policies” to...
by Kristin Rowan | Jan 31, 2024 | Admin, CMS, Regulatory
By Kristin Rowan, Editor The National Association for Home Care and Hospice joined other advocacy groups this month on Capitol Hill to fight against the looming pay cuts from CMS. Some members of Congress joined the fight for “common sense policies” to...
by Tim Rowan | Jan 24, 2024 | CMS, Regulatory
by Tim Rowan, Editor Emeritus T he battle for stable Home Health reimbursement rates continues full speed ahead on Capitol Hill, but the advocacy organizations engaged on the front lines of that battle are losing ground. The Partnership for Quality Home Healthcare and...
by Tim Rowan | Jan 24, 2024 | Regulatory
Untitled Document Analysis by Tim Rowan, Editor Emeritus P erennial Home Health enemy MedPAC angered a different group last week by releasing a status report on insurance companies participating in the Medicare Advantage program.1 The report details the way in...
