A well-known nonprofit home care provider in one state that serves over 600 people has announced that it will be forced to close by April due to financial challenges. The Farmingdale, Maine-based Home Care for Maine has been plagued by a few different factors, the main one being the hike in the mandated state minimum […]
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In a victory to health care providers waiting on lengthy appeals decisions, a federal judge ordered the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to eliminate its backlog of Medicare appeals claims in the next few years. The order comes after a damning report revealed a shockingly large backlog of Medicare claims appeals cases, with […]
More home health payment cuts are coming, and home health care groups are fighting back against further proposals to change reimbursement measures. Most recently, industry groups shot back against the Home Health Prospective Payment System Rate Update for calendar year 2017, which had an open public comment period that ended August 26. In conjunction with […]