by John Reisinger | Feb 27, 2017 | Financial Analysis, Financial Fundamentals, Financial Management, Home Health PPS Rule
Do HH PPS Payment Rates Impact Your non-Medicare Profitability? Home Health (HH) PPS payment rates to the industry are updated every year by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). How often are your non-Medicare payment rates updated? If your Home...
by John Reisinger | Feb 16, 2017 | Mandated Demonstrations, Value-Based Purchasing, Value-Based Purchasing Demonstration
Are they the same thing? There is a misunderstanding in the home health industry that the Value-Based Purchasing Demonstration is in fact Pay-for-Performance; albeit under a different title. Well, that perception is incorrect. The Value-Based Purchasing Demonstration...
by John Reisinger | Jul 29, 2016 | CMS Proposed Rules, Face-to-Face, Face-toFace, Uncategorized
Take advantage of this rare opportunity and participate in the Rule-Making-Process: Submit Comments In today’s Fed’l Register CMS has once again given the home health industry an opportunity to submit comments about the Face-to-Face (F2F) regulation; particularly in...
by John Reisinger | Oct 30, 2015 | 2016 HH PPS Rule, FINAL Rule for 2016, Home Health PPS Rule
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...
by John Reisinger | Aug 15, 2015 | 2016 HH PPS Rule, 2016 PPS Payment Rates
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...
by John Reisinger | Aug 13, 2015 | 2016 HH PPS Rule, Change in Wage Indices, Home Health PPS Rule
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...
