Now Available! Home Health Value-Based Purchasing: Getting Ready for 2023
This Virtual Update is free for LeadingAge members and provides an overview of the national expansion of the home health value-based purchasing demonstration and how to prepare your agency for success. The nationwide expansion of the...
Home Health Member Network Recap Available
LeadingAge’s Home Health Member Network met on April 5, 2022, to discuss the Medicare Home Infusion Therapy benefit and health equity issues in home health as well as updates on national legislation and regulation...
Home Health Member Network Recap Available
LeadingAge’s Home Health Member Network met on August 2, 2022, was joined by Brian Slater, Director and Kelly Vontran, Deputy Director of the Division of Home Health and Hospice at CMS for a listening...
Prepare Your Organization for the Evolving Home Health and Hospice Environments
LeadingAge members have free access to the results of the 2021-2022 National Healthcare at Home Best Practices and Future Insights Study. Join Lindsay Doak, Senior Manager at BerryDunn and owner of the study, as...
LeadingAge Comments on OASIS-E Changes in Home Health
LeadingAge submitted comments on the proposed OASIS-E changes in home health. We asked for OASIS-E to be delayed until CY2024 and cited the current workforce shortage and competing pressure with home health value based...
Independent Study Finds Home Health Value-Based Purchasing Demonstrated Slight Decreases in Utilization and Medicare...
A cohort study published in JAMA Health Forum compared beneficiary care in a state with the original Home Health Value Based Purchasing (HHVBP) demonstration and states which did not participate in the demonstration. The study found...
CMS Updates Home Health Cost Reports
CMS released a transmittal (R3P247i) updating the Home Health Agency Cost Report, Form CMS-1728-20, by clarifying and correcting the existing instructions, forms, and electronic cost report (ECR) specifications. These changes will impact cost reporting...
LeadingAge Home Health Member Network Call, September 20th, 1:00 PM CT
Join us on Tuesday, September 20th, at 1:00 PM CT, for the Home Health Member Network call. Members will be joined Andrea Price-Carter Director, Workforce and Technology Policy to discuss the Aging Workforce Now! campaign....
LeadingAge Home Health Member Network Call with CMS Payment Policy Staff
Join us on Tuesday, August 2nd, at 1 PM CT, for the Home Health Member Network call. Brian Slater, Director and Kelly Vontran, Deputy Director of the Division of Home Health and Hospice at...
AHRQ Releases Blog on Challenges and Opportunities in Home Health Quality Improvement
In the third of four blog posts on the challenges of advancing healthcare quality by AHRQ Director Robert Otto Valdez, Ph.D., M.H.S.A., a member of AHRQ’s National Advisory Council, highlights the myriad challenges of improving...
Annual Update of Home Health HCPCS Codes Released
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Service (CMS) released a Change Request (CR 11601) to provide the January 2023 annual update to the list of Healthcare Common Procedure Coding System (HCPCS) codes used by...