Cash versus Accrual – which methodology to use The Home Health Cost Report was recently revised back in 2020 (vers. 1728-20) coincident with the change over to the PDGM version of PPS. As someone that has been reviewing and/or preparing Medicare Cost...
The Home Health Cost Report The Home Health Medicare Cost Report is a document that must be completed and filed annually by all home health agencies (HHAs). Failure to do so can result in the termination of all cash-flows from the Medicare program and can also...
There was a fairly significant change to the Medicare Home Health Cost Report for 2016. Do you know what that change was? Worksheet S-2-1 Worksheet S-2-1 is new to the Home Health Cost Report for CY 2016 (i.e., a fiscal year-end of 12/31/16)....
The MedPac Payment Policy Report The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPac) released their latest Medicare Payment Policy report to Congress on March 15, 2017. There are fourteen chapters and some additional administrative information in this report – see...
Do You Know Your Medicare Margins? Medicare Margins (as a % of Medicare revenues) have been bandied about for over a decade here in home health. The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPac) and CMS are the two biggest promoters of this metric. MedPac submits...
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