Monday, October 19, 2026 - Updated Daily
Monday, October 19, 2026 - Updated Daily
The beautiful, fascinating thing about health policy in the U.S. is its cycle of evolution. It evolves, sometimes slowly and other times quickly but always, in a progressive (not in the political sense) direction. Providers…
In nearly all provider segments of health care, revenue maximization and integrity are directly tied to compliance and quality ratings. In home health, submission of quality data via the OASIS (known as HH CAHPS) is…
Spring is the time when CMS starts dropping Proposed Rules for various health care provider segments. This past week or so saw update drops for IRFs, Hospice and SNFs. Recall, Proposed Rules are administrative law…
I spend a good (ok, large) amount of time working with non-profit and privately held health care, post-acute and seniors housing organizations. Nearly all of my work is at the C-level and above and frankly,…
Late this afternoon, I caught news that CMS will release a number of Final Rules impacting post-acute providers over the next few days. Below is a quick summary of what is known for SNFs. I…
In a memo set for release today, CMS is proposing to reintroduce pre-payment review (with a twist) for Home Health claims. The memo version is here: HHA Pre Payment Recall, CMS first introduced pre-payment review…
Last Friday, CMS released the contents of its annual proposed rule updating the SNF PPS plus (as always), fine tuning certain related programmatic elements. Final Federal Register Publication is set for May 8. (Anyone wishing…
Just ahead of the Fourth of July holiday, CMS released its proposed home health rule changes for FY 2015. As common, the proposal includes rate changes/modifications and clarifications and adjustments to Conditions of Participation. The…
In news just released, Kindred (the post-acute, skilled, rehab and LTAcH behemoth) has made two separate offers to purchase control of Gentiva, the latest a $14 per share offer consisting of half cash, half stock…
Over the course of many engagements plus my years as an executive, I’ve addressed and been asked to address, the theme of effective governance, particularly at the Board level. To bring this topic into full…
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