The White House on Monday, April 22, announced that the nursing home minimum-staffing rule has been finalized.Effectively, the rule requires all nursing homes that receive Medicare and Medicaid funding to maintain a certain staffing threshold at all times. The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid...
If the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) proposed 2025 hospice rule is finalized as written, hospices may encounter some hurdles in implementing some of the new requirements. CMS late last month issued its proposed hospice rule for 2025. The proposal called for a...
The draft version of the OASIS-E1 Instrument, which will go into effect on January 1, 2025, is now available. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) recently posted this draft All Items Instrument on the CMS Home Health Quality reporting OASIS Data Set website,...
While home care providers are working to mitigate headwinds - such as the rising cost of delivering care and staffing challenges - they also have their eye on where the industry goes from here.As 2024 approaches, home care leaders are embracing AI, alternative payer sources,...
Hospice providers will be looking to Congress in 2024 to address issues related to program integrity, quality improvement, and industry-wide workforce pressures. As legislative efforts develop, hospices may want to focus their attention on a few key legislators. Though hospice is largely a community-based business, actions...
Program integrity issues that have heated up in the hospice space during the past five years reached a boiling point in 2023. Hospice providers have seen an array of increased regulatory oversight in 2023. That momentum has been fueled by two main concerns among regulators -...