The Home Health Care Wire
Your source for CareVoyant and industry news. August 10, 2022
Home Health Value-Based Purchasing (HHVBP) – A Primer
HHVBP represents the most significant change to provide incentives (or penalties) to Medicare Certified Home Health Agencies to give higher quality and more efficient care. Home Health Agencies must review their processes to monitor quality outcomes and adjust as needed.
Home Health Care Agencies should provide easy-to-use and intuitive tools to clinicians and caregivers to enable them to complete the documentation at the point of care. Effective clinical documentation improves the agency's operational efficiency while enhancing the quality of care, patient safety, patient satisfaction, and employee satisfaction.
The software platform will play a critical role in helping Home Health Agencies to implement OASIS-E changes. Agencies should check with their software vendors to understand their plans to accommodate OASIS-E, make sure their plan will meet the requirements, and adjust their process accordingly.
This blog reviews the functions needed to support your transition to OASIS-E.
Home Healthcare Industry News
Take heart, home health: CMS can change its mind
If I were a lobbyist trying to soften the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS’) proposed home health rule, I’d be feeling a little more confident right now. Two reasons: The hospice final rule and the skilled nursing facility final rule.
In both instances, CMS modified its position pretty significantly between the proposal and final stage. In the case of the hospice final rule, CMS increased the Medicare funding update by more than a percentage point — from 2.7% to 3.8%.
CMS, OIG Disconnect Highlighted In Medicare Overpayments Report
Federal watchdogs reported the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has not collected the near-$500 million in Medicare overpayments that were found in audits over a two-year period beginning in 2014.
The Office of the Inspector General at the Department of Health and Human Services (OIG-HHS) recently reviewed 148 Medicare audits it conducted for 30 months between 2014 and 2016 and could only verify that CMS collected $120 million of the $498 million in overpayments.
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