Centers For Medicare & Medicaid Services: 2015 Home Health Prospective Payment System Rate Update; Home Health Quality Reporting Requirements; & Survey & Enforcement Requirements For Home Health Agencies

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) finalized the calendar year 2015 Home Health Prospective Payment System (HH PPS) Final rule on November 6, 2014. The rule implements the second adjustment in a four-year rebasing initiative, and changes to simplify the face-to-face encounter regulatory requirements and therapy reassessment timeframes, revise the home health quality reporting requirement, and update the HH PPS case-mix weights. The final rule also discusses Medicare coverage of insulin injections under the HH PPS, the delay in the implementation of ICD-10-CM, and a home health value-based purchasing (HH VBP . . .