Home Health Care News January 31, 2024
The Medicare enrollment process undergoes annual changes at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to ensure it remains up to date with evolving regulations, policies and health care practices.
A number of changes went into effect on Jan. 1, and several of them will affect home health agencies.
Here’s what home health agencies should know about those changes.
Active enrollment, location changes
Starting this year, CMS will impose stricter reporting requirements for home health agencies and other providers as it pertains to changes in ownership, control and practice locations.
“This could be significant,” Mary Carr, VP for regulatory affairs at the National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC), said during a webinar Wednesday. “CMS is going to...