Affordable Care Act
CMS to Supress RAP Payments on New Home Health Agencies
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a Med learn (MLN) Matters® article, SE 19005 that will place all new home health agencies (HHAs) into a provisional period of enhanced oversight. The provisional period will include a suppression of all Requests for Anticipated Payment (RAP) payments for 30 days to 1 year, effective […]
Read MoreMedicare Trust Fund Will be Depleted in 2026
The Medicare trust fund will be depleted in 2026, according too a Medicare Trustees report released Tuesday. That warning is grimmer that last year’s report, which indicated the trust fund would be empty in 2029. The Board of Trustees attributed the worsened outlook to a variety of causes, such as the repeal of the individual […]
Read MoreThe Three Threats to Home Health in the FY2019 Budget
On Monday, February 12, President Trump released his Fiscal Year 2019 Budget. This annual event, occurring every February, is required by law, yet the actual document holds no legal authority. Rather it serves as more of a list of desires the President and various agencies would like to see occur. All federal budgeting must be […]
Read MoreThe Health Care Implications of the 2018 State of the Union Address
Though discussions and bare-knuckled legislative battles over health care dominated much of 2017, President Trump touched on the subject only briefly during his first State of the Union address on Tuesday, January 30. On the subject of the Affordable Care Act, which Trump and the Republicans failed to overturn in 2017, the President boasted of […]
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