$1.93 billion. 741 pages. Those two numbers are significant markers for the home health care industry, which is facing an onslaught of regulations—and huge, looming costs if they come to fruition. Specifically, $1.93 billion is the total financial impact home health care agencies might feel in the two to three years between the new Conditions […]
President Donald Trump’s plan to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) immigration policy could reduce the number of workers available to the home health care industry during an already worrying caregiver shortage. U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced on September 5 that the administration will end the Obama-era program that protects about 800,000 […]
In the aftermath of two major hurricanes, home health agencies across the U.S. are racing to comply with the new emergency preparedness rule from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) before November’s deadline. But many are finding that the associated costs aren’t so easy to nail down. The rule mandates that heath care providers across […]
When President Trump announced on Tuesday that he would end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program after a 6-month delay, the news hit the home health care industry especially hard. The program, which protects young undocumented adults from being deported from the United States, is actually full of home health care workers. In […]
Happy Tuesday, Home Health Care News readers, and welcome back from your long weekend. Catch up on all things home health and home care with our must-read news roundup—keep reading for our top stories from last week. Just before the long weekend, A federal judge in Texas scrapped a controversial Obama-era wage rule that would […]
With new conditions of participation (CoPs) coming in 2018 for home health care providers, the recently proposed payment system update feels like regulation overload to an industry already dealing with years of reimbursement rate cuts. The 2018 Home Health Prospective Payment System Rate Update from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) included a proposal […]
When the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) proposed a new payment model for home health care agencies in late July, industry associations decried the significant changes, and public companies took a major hit. With a potential cut of $950 million to home health reimbursements in 2019 alone included in the model, associations are […]
Happy Monday, Home Health Care News readers. Are you stepping outdoors today to view the much-anticipated solar eclipse? Some of our team will be viewing the astrological affair from the rooftop of a local grocery store. Not to over-hype the event, but Bonnie Tyler will reportedly be singing “Total Eclipse of the Heart” during the […]
As a new emergency preparedness rule from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) looms, home health companies big and small are scrambling to make sure their bases are covered before it takes effect in November. Under the rule, which was first introduced in 2013 and finalized last September, heath care providers across 17 settings, including home health care, […]
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has proposed to cancel mandatory bundled payment models and make changes to an existing bundled payment initiative focused on joint replacements. The proposal aligns with what home health stakeholders have called for, as some have stated the mandatory bundles were being implemented too fast. Specifically, CMS is moving […]
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