Category: NAHC Report

Home Care & Hospice News Review

Read on for NAHC Report’s regular round-up of important home care, home health, and hospice stories from around the country. If there is a story you would like to share with your fellow home care and hospice professionals, please send it tom@nahc.org. Home care providers applaud lawmakers’ scrutiny of MA plan prior authorizations A senator’s recent…

FMC 2023 Early Bird Rate Ends Soon! Register Before it Ends

Learn more about FMC 2023 Register for FMC 2023 Take advantage now and register for the 2023 Financial Management Conference (FMC) before June 1, 2023, for the lowest rate. Discover new insights with engaging sessions led by thought-provoking speakers and leave with enormous takeaways. You’ll also get up to speed on the latest industry products…

TODAY! Making Sense of Medicaid: Long-Term Care

Thursday, May 25, 2023 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM EDT REGISTER This webinar is the second in the NAHC Medicaid educational series. Building on the April introduction to Medicaid webinar, this session will provide an in-depth look at Medicaid long-term services and supports (LTSS), including: The statutory and regulatory parameters that govern Medicaid LTSS; History,…

6th Annual Home Health Value Based Purchasing Report Released

The Annual Report focuses on the experience of home health patients and agencies through 2021, the fourth and final year that eligible agencies in the nine original Home Health Value Based Purchasing (HHVBP) states received an adjustment to their Medicare payment amounts under the Home Health Prospective Payment System (HH PPS). An agency’s performance in…

NAHC Comments on Hospice FY2024 Payment Rule: Rates Have Not Kept Up with Costs

NAHC Provides Guidance on Potential Provider Input Submit your comments HERE by May 30 On Friday, March 31, 2023, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued Medicare Program; FY 2024 Hospice Wage Index and Payment Rate Update, Hospice Conditions of Participation Updates, Hospice Quality Reporting Program Requirements, and Hospice Certifying Physician Provider Enrollment…

NAHC’s Andrea Devoti Honored at McKnight’s Women of Distinction

On Monday, May 22, NAHC’s Executive Vice President Andrea Devoti was inducted into the Hall of Honor in the McKnight’s Women of Distinction awards, a joint program of McKnight’s Long-Term Care News, McKnight’s Senior Living and McKnight’s Home Care. The Women of Distinction program  honors women across the skilled nursing, senior living and home care…

HHFMA/NAHC Medicare Advantage Webinar Series, Part 3: TACTICS

Tuesday, June 6 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM EDT REGISTER Home Care providers are struggling with the impacts of shifting the Medicare-eligible population into Medicare Advantage Managed Care plans (MA Plans). Forward-looking providers are asking important questions, such as: What are the implications of current demographic trends? What operational and financial issues should providers expect…

New Hospice PEPPER Resources

As previously reported in NAHC Report, the annual Hospice Program for Evaluating Payment Patterns Electronic Report (PEPPER) in 2023 includes two new target areas related to non-hospice spending under Part B while patients are on hospice: Average Number of Medicare Part B Claims for Beneficiaries Residing at Home Average Number of Medicare Part B Claims…

CAHPS Hospice Survey Participation Exemption for Size Form Now Available

The Participation Exemption for Size Form for the calendar year (CY) 2023 CAHPS Hospice Survey data collection and reporting requirements is now available. Hospices that served fewer than 50 survey-eligible decedents/caregivers from January 1, 2022 through December 31, 2022 [or from assignment of CCN]) can apply for an exemption from participation in the CAHPS Hospice Survey for CY 2023.…

Medicaid Redeterminations Underway

For the past three years, state Medicaid agencies were required to maintain enrollment for all individuals in the program as a condition of receiving enhanced federal funding. These “continuous coverage” requirements led to a substantial increase in the Medicaid rolls. According to the Kaiser Family Foundation,[1] Medicaid enrollment grew by nearly a third between 2020…