by John Reisinger | Sep 18, 2021 | Uncategorized
Changes aplenty. Will you be ready? This (CY2022) being year 2 under PDGM, there are numerous changes proposed in the CY2022 HH PPS Proposed Rule; most having to do with HH PPS (see § II of the Proposed Rule) and the HH VBP Model (see §III), which I will discuss...
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 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...
by John Reisinger | Aug 10, 2015 | 2016 HH PPS Rule, Home Health PPS Rule
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...
by John Reisinger | Aug 27, 2014 | 2015 HH PPS Rule, Home Health PPS Rule, Rural Add-on
Comments in regards to the Rural Add-on provision as noted in the Proposed Rule for 2015 HH PPS: Why should the Rural Add-on end on 12/31/15? If there is a viable need for it now, what is changing that makes it not necessary come 2016? I know there is...
