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Home Health Payment Rule for 2012 Released
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Nov 7th, 2011
On October 31, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released its public display copy of the Final Home Health Payment Rule for 2012. The basic outlines of the rule remain largely intact but there were several changes of importance to VNAA members. Key provisions include:
The...
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VNAA Action Alert
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Nov 7th, 2011
As the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction (or Super Committee) enters the final weeks of its deliberations, we are asking you to contact your members of Congress to advocate for positions that are important to vulnerable patients and safety net provides. Please try to take this action as...
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CEO Monthly Column: The Home Health Therapy Scam: A Story Worthy of the Tabloids
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Oct 10th, 2011
The home health community is all abuzz over the long anticipated (in some quarters feared) Senate Finance Committee report on suspected abuses of the Medicare therapy threshold. As expected, the report documents in great detail the enormous pressure some publicly traded companies placed on their...
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Using Evidence-based Practice to Develop Annual Meeting Abstract Proposals
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Aug 8th, 2011
Every year, new and insightful clinical information is updated for home healthcare and hospice. While some of this information may seem useful, there is a standard for which clinical practices are deemed acceptable in the home. The VNAA encourages authors of abstracts to use Evidence-based Practice...
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CEO Monthly Column: Guilty as Charged: The VNAA’s Fingerprints on the Proposed Home Health Payment...
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Aug 1st, 2011
In the world of healthcare reimbursement, nothing tops the home health prospective payment system for complexity. LUPAs, therapy thresholds, outliers, and HHRG scores driven by exceptionally detailed data fed in from OASIS make the system a nightmare of complexity.
That's why the VNAA devotes...
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AARP, AHA, Caregivers and Others Advocate for Transition for Face-to-Face
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Dec 20th, 2010
With leadership from VNAA and the American Association of Homes and Services for the Aging (AAHSA) and support from NAHC, 26 organizations sent a letter to Dr. Donald Berwick, Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) asking for a transition period for the new face to...
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