Archive - July 2012

CMS has released their 2013 Proposed Rule titled:  Medicare Program; Home Health Prospective Payment System Rate Update for Calendar Year 2013, Hospice Quality Reporting Requirements, and Survey and Enforcement Requirements for Home Health Agencies.  Overall, this proposed rule proposes: Updates the Home Health Prospective Payment System (HH PPS) rates to effectively decrease payments by $20 million; Requirements for the Hospice quality data reporting program; Establish requirements for unannounced,... Read More

CMS Physician Fee Schedule Proposed Rule for CY 2013 Impact to Rehabilitation Providers: Claims based data collection based on the provision of the Middle Class Tax Relief and Jobs Creation Act (MCTRCA).  This would be for informational purposes only and not impact reimbursement of the submitted claim.  CMS would add codes and modifiers which would have to be appended to submitted claims by the provider.  The effective date would be 1/1/2013; however, there would be a grace/testing... Read More