by Rowan Report | Dec 13, 2023 | CMS, Regulatory
From the NAHC Newsroom Public comments due January 5, 2024 CMS Policy Changes to Medicare C & D. On November 5, 2023, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued the Contract Year 2025 Policy and Technical Changes to the Medicare Advantage...
by Kristin Rowan | Dec 13, 2023 | CMS, Regulatory
by Kristin Rowan, Editor Last week, MedPAC met for their December meeting to discuss “Assessing payment adequacy and updating payments.” Hospice services and Home health care services were each presented separately to Congress and commissioners are set to...
by Kristin Rowan | Nov 8, 2023 | CMS, Regulatory
By Kristin Rowan, Editor On November 1, CMS issued its Home Health Final Rule for CY 2024. As expected, the final rule includes drastic pay cuts to Medicare home health services payments. The original proposed rule issued earlier this year included a 5.653% rate...
by Rowan Report | Oct 11, 2023 | CMS, Medicare Advantage, Regulatory
NOW AVAILABLE IN iQIES – Preview Reports and Star Rating Preview Reports for the January 2024 Refresh CMS just published updated measure for Home Health Outcome Information Set (Oasis) and all HH QRP claims-based measures. These updated measures are no based on...
by Tim Rowan | Aug 9, 2023 | Editorial
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 achieving that goal....
by Tim Rowan | Feb 1, 2023 | CMS, Medicare Advantage, Regulatory
by Tim Rowan, Editor CMS Rule to Protect Medicare The 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...
by Tim Rowan | Sep 16, 2020 | CMS, Editorial
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...
by Tim Rowan | Sep 16, 2020 | CMS, Regulatory
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...
by Tim Rowan | Sep 9, 2020 | CMS
CMS News: 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...
