NAHC: Include Medicaid HCBS Providers in COVID Relief Funds

The National Association for Home Care & Hospice and the Partnership for Medicaid Home-Based Care have written to Secretary Alex Azar of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to ask the Department to include Medicaid home and community-based services (HCBS) providers in the next round of funding from the Public Health and Social…

Trump Signs EVV Delay into Law

President Donald J. Trump on Monday evening signed into law H.R. 6042, a bipartisan bill which passed Congress in July, allowing states to delay electronic visit verification in Medicaid-reimbursed care services for one year. Congress mandated electronic visit verification (EVV), to begin in January 2019, as part of the 21st Century Cures Act, in order to…

Electronic Visit Verification Delay Passes Congress

The United States Senate unanimously approved bipartisan legislation on Tuesday, July 17, to delay until 2020 the start of the electronic visit verification program to document when personal care services are provided. An identical bill passed the House of Representatives last month and now the legislation goes to the White House for President Trump to…