CMS has issued the pre-publication version of: CY 2016 Home Health Prospective Payment System Rate Update; Home Health Value-Based Purchasing Model; and Home Health Quality Reporting Requirements today (10/29/15) at 4:15 pm. This is available at the Federal Register...
With the publication of the Proposed Rule for CY 2016, back on July 10, 2015, the information necessary for calculating the changes in the 2016 PPS Payment Rates has been available. There's a lot going on in this rule, but it ultimately boils down to reimbursement:...
Changes in Wage-Indices for CY 2016: After the transitional period of the Service Areas/Wage-Indices (only applicable to 2015) there are now going to be 509 distinct Service Areas, each with their own Wage-Index (there were 445 services areas in 2014). Every year I do...
Once again, CMS is proposing to change the Point Scoring Variables of the OASIS for 2016. This is an issue that I do have some concerns about, but as a financial person that is not clinically trained I do not feel that I am able to understand and address with the...
As we get ready to enter Year 3 of Rebasing, the 2016 HH PPS payment rates are projected to decline again. CMS notes in the Proposed Rule for 2016, that HH reimbursement is projected to be reduced another $350 million (a 1.8% reduction) as compared to total HH...
The HH PPS Proposed Rule for 2016 was published in the Federal Register on July 10, 2015. here is our Bookmarked HH PPS Proposed Rule for 2016 v1 There has been a lot of talk about the changes headed for Home Health; the biggest of which, the Value-Based...