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2019 Rural Add-On Changes
By Melinda Gaboury / Posted on: November 30, 2018 3 minutes to readAs if the changes in the payment system were not enough. Based on the 2019 Medicare Home Health Final Rule, released in early November 2018, the Rural Add-On is being completely revised.
VIEW POSTOASIS-D: ARE YOU READY FOR 2019?
By Melinda Gaboury / Posted on: October 30, 2018 5 minutes to readOASIS has indeed changed again and quite dramatically this time. While there are 28 M items that have been deleted from the data set and only 6 new ones added, don’t be fooled into believing that this will be a breeze.
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Top Denial Reasons – Hospice Targeted Probe and Educate
By Leslie Heagy / Posted on: September 11, 2018 5 minutes to readTargeted Probe and Educate (TPE) is underway for Hospice Agencies. HPS is seeing many ADR denials with agencies moving to round 2 and 3 of TPE from both CGS and NGS.
VIEW POST2019 Value Based Purchasing Proposed Changes
By Melinda Gaboury / Posted on: August 27, 2018 5 minutes to readCMS released the CY2019 Medicare Home Health payment rule July 12, 2018. A large part of the proposed changes are to the Value-Based Purchasing (VBP) Model. One of the agency’s proposed refinements of VBP is removing five measures while adding two new proposed composite measures.
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