On September 8, 2016, the Federal Register posted the final rule Emergency Preparedness Requirements for Medicare and Medicaid Participating Providers and Suppliers. Healthcare providers and suppliers affected by this rule must comply with and implement all regulations by November 15, 2017.
Yesterday, November 1, 2017, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released the final rule for the CY2018 Home Health Prospective Payment System (HH PPS). In the final rule, CMS announces that it will not launch the Home Health Groupings Model (HHGM) in 2019.
Today the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released the draft version of the Home Health Agency Conditions of Participation (HHA CoP) Interpretive Guidelines to industry stakeholders. The National Association for Home Care and Hospice (NAHC) has made the guidelines available to its members for comment. CMS is unable to accept individual comments, but NAHC will be compiling feedback from its members and will present this feedback to CMS.
Managing Change: An Interview with Teresa Gregory, Corporate Director of Medical Services of America
The Remington Report interviewed Teresa Gregory, Corporate Director of Medical Services of America on behalf of Accreditation Commission for Health Care (ACHC). Medical Services of America is a comprehensive home healthcare provider that offers home healthcare provider that offers home healthcare, hospice care, home medical equipment and supplies, diabetic supplies, respiratory services, mail order supplies, home infusion therapy, enteral nutrition therapy, senior/assisted living, full service pharmacy, physician practice management, and billing and printing services.
The essential function of the interdisciplinary team, IDT, is to work together as a cohesive unit to meet the physical, emotional, spiritual, and psychosocial needs of the patient and family. The expectation is all members work as equal partners in addressing the patient’s and family’s identified needs associated with the terminal illness and related conditions.
This spring, Mountain Valley Hospice & Palliative Care became the first provider to achieve Accreditation Commission for Health Care’s newly launched Distinction in Palliative Care. For Denise Watson, MVHPC executive director, distinction has made a world of difference.
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) published a proposed rule on April 28, 2017, CMS-1677-P, which aims to provide consumers with more information to help them choose a healthcare provider. This proposed rule would require all Accrediting Organizations (AOs) with CMS deeming authority to post survey reports and acceptable plans of correction (POCs) on their websites. For more information on the proposed rule view the CMS fact sheet.
