CMS has
rolled full speed ahead ignoring letters from Senators, members of Congress,
and others issuing the Final Home Health PPS Rules and Rates for 2016. CMS estimates that home health payments will
be reduced by 1.4% or $260 million. The
changes include the third year 2.4% reduction for rebasing payments, a .97%
reduction for case mix creep, and a 1.4 percent inflation increase. We will have more emails next week on payment
rate specifics.
CMS has also
finalized the Home Health Value-Based Purchasing Model. They have reduced the number of process
measures from 10 to 6; have 10 outcome measures; 5 HHCAHPS measures, and
reduced the number of reporting measures from 4 to 3. CMS has made some adjustments to the payment amounts
by lowering the first year to a plus or minus 3 percent. The fifth year will be plus or minus 8
percent.
If your home
health agency is located in Arizona, Florida, Iowa, Maryland, Massachusetts,
Nebraska, North Carolina, Tennessee, or Washington you will be required to
participate in the model beginning on January 1, 2016. Actually they have already been collecting
data for their base year which will be 2015.
If you are located in one of the 9 states listed above you have 63 days to be ready for
HHVPM to begin. We have two timely One
Day Seminars that will give you the information you need to prepare for the
changes. They are titled Winning
Strategies – Home Health Value Based Payments.
The first seminar will be held in Louisville, KY on November 10th. The second seminar will be held in Orlando,
FL on November 17th. The
seminar topics are:
Understanding the
Home Health Value-Based Purchasing Model
How to Succeed Under
Home Health Value Based Purchasing
Review of Final Home
Health Rules and Rates for 2016
SMART Marketing to
Grow and Prosper
We are pleased to offer $100 per person
discount off the current rate because of a sponsorship by TurboQuisine. The discounted rate including the $100
discount is $269 for the first person
and $199 for additional people from
the same agency.
We have a
Temporary Link to the Final Rule because the final rule will not be published in
the Federal Register until November 5th.
We developed
a free 10 minute video that could help you to solve 5 major issues impacting
your home health agency. We have always
tried to have our clients, seminar attendees and friends to learn to think
outside the box. This video really hits on
that point. Watch the video and let us
know your opinion.
For more
information please use the following link
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