CMS proposes 2.6 percent hospice payment update for FY 2025
By
Liza Berger
Mar 28, 2024
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services this afternoon proposed a 2.6% update for hospices for fiscal year 2025 — an estimated increase of $705 million in payments from FY 2024.
[Updated] HHS extends temporary Medicaid enrollment period to ease coverage disruption
By
Liza Berger
Mar 28, 2024
The Department of Health and Human Services today disclosed it is extending a temporary special enrollment period (SEP) to help people who have lost Medicaid coverage due to the so-called unwinding. Thousands...
Spreading the gospel of home care
By
Liza Berger
Mar 22, 2024
Among all the ways to resolve the frontline caregiver and nursing shortage in home care, one sticks out from the rest: education.
HHS: Don’t pity UHG for cyberattack
By
Liza Berger
Mar 15, 2024
Even if you are a nonaffected bystander, it’s hard not to be drawn into the evolving and increasingly drama-filled story surrounding the Change Healthcare cyberattack.
80/20 rule to have ‘four-year runway,’ Addus execs predict
By
Liza Berger
Mar 13, 2024
Addus executives expect the 80/20 rule will not look much different from the original proposal and will take effect in four years.
Hospitals, home care firms press lawmakers to extend hospital-at-home waiver
By
Liza Berger
Mar 12, 2024
More than 50 providers sent a letter to two House leaders urging them to pass a five-year extension of the Acute Hospital Care at Home Waiver.
Expanded partnership grows kidney care at home to MA beneficiaries in five states
By
Liza Berger
Mar 11, 2024
Value-based kidney care provider Strive Health and payer Humana Inc. have expanded a partnership to deliver at-home and in-center care to thousands of Medicare Advantage members with chronic kidney disease...
Home Care briefs for Monday, March 11
By
Liza Berger
Mar 11, 2024
Labor, HHS secretaries issue letter to healthcare leaders on Change Healthcare cyberattack … Around 3 in 4 Medicare Advantage enrollees are in plans requiring prior authorization for some services, study...
CMS hears you, hospice providers
By
Liza Berger
Mar 08, 2024
Rarely does the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services succeed in shocking us. The large bureaucracy, which is not exactly known for its nimbleness, managed to do so this week when it abruptly cancelled...
Biden plugs home care, family caregivers in State of the Union
By
Liza Berger
Mar 08, 2024
In a State of the Union speech Thursday night that was lighter on healthcare than other domestic, and foreign, policy issues, President Biden gave a brief nod to home care.