HOME HEALTH AND HOSPICE

On September 26, 2019, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a final rule regarding discharge planning requirements that will impact home health agencies, among other health care providers such as hospitals. The final rule, published in the Federal Register on September 30, 2019, updates discharge planning requirements under the various providers’ Conditions […]

An IHHC Allied member contribution by Markus P. Cicka, J.D., LL.M. (Health Law) In the July 2, 2019 edition of the Communicator Xpress, I discussed a CMS final rule (the “Final Rule”), effective July 5, 2019, which removed the regulatory text that allows a state to make Medicaid payments to third parties on behalf of […]

by: Bradley W. Howard Several recently issued federal indictments in Florida, Missouri and Virginia all tell the same story: Home Health Agencies, their owners and employees have been charged with health care fraud counts premised on the agencies billing Medicare or Medicaid for home health services that were not actually provided to home-based patients in […]