How to prepare for VBP.CMS has given home health agencies an extra year to prepare for VBP. Here’s what your organization should do with the extra time. Home health agencies bracing for a nationwide...

3 More Reasons to Outsource Billing to SimiTree in 2022.Cash flow. Staffing shortages. Lingering pandemic. Uncertainties about court-challenged vaccine mandates from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and OSHA, and how...

Hospice Survey Changes.CMS is tightening survey rules and increasing CoPs scrutiny for hospices. Here’s what your agency needs to know. Regulatory agencies are taking a harder look at infection control...

Cost Reporting: What Agencies are Getting Right and Wrong (and Why It Matters).Cost Reporting: What Agencies are Getting Right and Wrong (and Why It Matters) Wondering how much the Centers for Medicaid and Medicaid Services (CMS) will pay for telehealth...

8 Things to Know About the Final Rule for Home Health – plus a new vaccine mandate.8 Things to Know About the Final Rule for Home Health – plus a new vaccine mandate Home health agencies will see a significantly higher Medicare reimbursement rate in...

CMS issues Final Rule for Hospice FY2022.On July 29, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) issued the FY2022 Final Rule for Hospice, updating Medicare payment rates and the aggregate cap amount for FY2022.

Is your agency losing key employees?.Agencies struggle with employee retention under PDGM, other Medicare regulations.? Fallout from Medicare’s new and complex payment methodology, the Patient-Driven Groupings Model...

Home health and hospice billing errors, oversights could trigger audits as CMS renews Targeted Probe and Education..Beginning this month, home health and hospice agencies with high billing errors and denial rates could be subject to a review of between 20 and 40 claims and all supporting medical...