Home Health

CMS Launches Home Health Prior Authorization Requirement
Despite pushback from the home health industry and lawmakers, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced Wednesday it intends to move forward with a preauthorization requirement. (Kourtney Liepelt/Home Health Care News)

NEW YORK (June 2, 2016)—QIRT (Quality In Real Time), provider of home health and hospice coding, consulting, billing and education services, announced today that A.D. Maxim and its subsidiary, CQI Coding and Quality Improvement, Inc., have joined QIRT. A.D.

Here's How the New Overtime Law Will Affect You
A new law dramatically expands overtime protection. Here's how it will affect millions of Americans. (Fast Company/Gale Gutherie Wiseman)

The Dangers of Polypharmacy, and the Ever-Mounting Pile of Pills

WASHINGTON, D.C. (February 23, 2016)—As part of our efforts to improve care delivery, data sharing, and transparency, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is releasing two public data sets regarding the availability and use of services provided to Medicare beneficiaries by ground ambulance suppliers and home health agencies, as well as a list of Medicare fee-for-service (FFS) providers and suppliers currently approved to bill Medicare.

WASHINGTON, D.C. (January 29, 2016)—On January 27, CMS published the final rule to Medicaid Program; Face-to-Face Requirements for Home Health Services; Policy Changes and Clarifications Related to Home Health.

PHILADELPHIA—Elsevier, a world-leading provider of scientific, technical and medical information products and services, announced the availability of Mosby's Orientation to Home Health Care, a comprehensive online, continuing education course that helps home health care organizations prepare nurses and therapists to provide care to patients in their homes.