1. F2F Telehealth Blog

    CMS clarifies timeline for phasing out F2F telehealth allowances.Corrected guidance from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) may clear up confusion among home health and hospice providers regarding the continuing use of...

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  2. Market Uncertainty on Medicare Home Health Reimbursement SimiTree

    No fallout from proposed rate cut, as market takes wait-and-see stance.The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) plans to levy a hefty behavioral adjustment on home health reimbursement in fiscal year 2023, a move projected by some industry...

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  3. Medicare Proposes Home Health Rate Cut SimiTree

    Will home health rate cut be frozen?.Home health agencies are battening the hatches for Medicare’s proposed rate cut in 2023, with industry advocates cautioning that a 4.2 percent reduction could leave as many as 44...

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  4. New Medicare G Codes Proposed for Telehealth SimiTree

    New G codes proposed for telehealth, but no pay.As Medicare looks to begin tracking the number of telehealth visits by discipline without offering any reimbursement to home health providers, SimiTree consultants say providers...

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  5. QAPI Home Health SimiTree

    Quality focus: What is the ‘right’ level of investment?.Quality scores play an important role in home health and hospice, driving decisions by both payers and referral sources and prompting new scrutiny on how quality management spending...

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  6. Identify Potential Audit Risks with PEPPER SimiTree

    Use data to reduce audit risk.Is your home health or hospice agency effectively monitoring its own data to determine the risk of a Medicare or Medicaid payment-related audit? Data can help home health and...

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  7. What do workers want … really?.By John Rabbia, PT, DPT, MS, MBA, COS-C Director, Operations Consulting Healthcare organizations across the country have been struggling to maintain staffing levels during the...

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  8. Hospice Quality Reporting SimiTree

    Quality reporting deadlines for hospice.Non-compliant hospices will see 2% penalty on Oct. 1, 2022 Hospices need to be aware of two important hospice quality reporting deadlines occurring over the next few days, SimiTree...

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