Some estates of former Medicaid beneficiaries are getting “death bills” for the cost of long-term care services under a little-known Medicaid estate recovery law, reports USA Today. The article profiles the family of a 92-year-old woman that Medicaid billed for $25,347 following the death of their mother, who had received home-based medical care in the […]
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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently released an update to its Medicare Claims Processing Manual that provides clarifying information and corrections to reporting requirements for hospice providers in skilled nursing facilities. The January 31, 2014 update replaces a July 2013 manual update specifying the collection of additional data on hospice claims under […]
Following in the footsteps of its initial home health moratorium last year, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) will now bar new agencies from enrolling in four additional U.S. metros. CMS today announced a new temporary moratoria on the enrollment of home health agencies in Fort Lauderdale, Detroit, Dallas and Houston, as well […]
A Vermont Senator is sponsoring a bill that would require the state’s Agency of Human Services to pay for telemonitoring for certain Medicaid beneficiaries starting this July. Remote monitoring can yield significant savings by reducing hospital admissions and readmissions, Peter Cobb, director of the Vermont Assembly of Home Health and Hospice agencies, told the Vermont Digger, […]
Home care workers in certain states and Illinois in particular could be impacted by an upcoming Supreme Court ruling on Harris vs. Quinn on whether public sector employees who don’t join or support union activities should still be required to pay union fees. The Supreme Court is currently debating the case, which stems from a […]
The use of “telemedicine” is growing as a way to safely keep seniors in their homes, writes CNBC in a recent article profiling a Pennsylvania-based nonprofit’s usage of a remote monitoring system. Lutheran SeniorLife offers its clients the use of the MobileCare Monitor, a monitoring device that can alert community staff if a resident falls. […]
Addus Home Care has teamed up with Aetna Better Health of Illinois, an Aetna Medicaid plan, to conduct a pilot study on the impact of providing smart phones to home care aides serving Illinois residents participating in the state’s Integrated Care Program. The care program provides assistance with meal preparation, bathing, housekeeping, and transportation, among […]
The home health industry experienced billion dollar growth in 2012, despite low national health spending overall, according to a recent report from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). While national health spending slowed for the fourth consecutive year at an annual rate of 3.7% in 2012, home health spending growth accelerated 5.1% to […]
Several factors could poise the multi-billion dollar telemedicine market for double-digit growth by as much as 18% by 2018, according to a recent report from Research and Markets. Totaling $14.2 billion in 2012, Research and Markets projects that the global telemedicine market will grow at a compounded annual growth rate of 18.5% during 2012-2018. The […]
Two Texans are prison-bound for their roles in a scheme to defraud the state’s Medicaid program through false home health reimbursement claims, United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson and Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott announced on Wednesday. Debra Jean Velasquez and Sylvia Salinas Ramirez both pleaded guilty in early September to conspiring to submit false and […]
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