Emergency Preparedness Requirements New Interpretive Guidelines 2019
4-part Webinar Series presented by: Barbara Citerella, RN, MS, RBC Limited

Through attendence in this web series, participants will increase their understanding of the newly updated federal emergency preparedness requirements that are part of the home health and hospice Conditions of Participation (COPs) and become knowledgeavble in how to apply the federal requirements for disaster preparedness in their own specific agencies. Enhance disaster plan development for all community based agencies.

MAHC Members receive a substantial discount using the code RBCEDP.

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Home Health and Hospice Dashboard Reports
BKD is now providing state home care associations a monthly dashboard report that will compare state and national data on certain key performance indicators.
These reports will alternate monthly between Home Health and Hospice (please note that the Hospice report will only include data for freestanding agencies).

Access the following state reports

Click here for the May 2021 - Home Health Key Performance Indicators - This report provides average direct costs per visit.

Click here for the February 2021 - Hospice Data Report - This report provides hospice cap key performance indicators (KPIs) recommended for monitoring.

Click here for the January 2021 - Home Health Data Report - This report provides an analysis of the change in the 2021 home health Medicare payment rates for each county after accounting for changes in the national standard rate, rural payment add-on, and wage-index adjustment.

Click here for the October 2020 - National Medicare Hospice Payment Rates - This report provides the Wage-Index Adjusted Medicare Hospice Payment Rates Effective October 1, 2020 Through September 30, 2021

Click here for the March 2020 - Home Health Data Report - This report provides key performance indicators (KPIs) to help assess performance under the home health Medicare Patient Driven Groupings Model (PDGM) compared to the Prospective Payment System (PPS). This data does not consider CMS behavior adjustments.

Click here for the October 2019 PDGM Update #4 report - This report series explores the data elements that drive payment under the proposed provisions of the Medicare Patient Driven Groupings Model (PDGM). All data was compiled using the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) home health claims-OASIS limited data set, which includes claims and OASIS data from 2018. This fourth installment looks at comorbidity adjustments by state.

Click here for the October 2019 PDGM Update #3 report - This report series explores the data elements that drive payment under the proposed provisions of the Medicare Patient Driven Groupings Model (PDGM). All data was compiled using the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) home health claims-OASIS limited data set, which includes claims and OASIS data from 2018. This third installment looks at functional impairment groupings by state.

Click here for the October 2019 PDGM Update #2 report - This report series explores the data elements that drive payment under the proposed provisions of the Medicare Patient Driven Groupings Model (PDGM). All data was compiled using the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) home health claims-OASIS limited data set, which includes claims and OASIS data from 2018.

Click here for the October 2019 PDGM Update #1 report - This report series explores the data elements that drive payment under the proposed provisions of the Medicare Patient Driven Groupings Model (PDGM). All data was compiled using the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) home health claims-OASIS limited data set, which includes claims and OASIS data from 2018.

Click here for the August 2019 Final 2020 Hospice Payment Rates report 

Click here for the July 2019 Home Health PDGM Impact Under Proposed Rule report - In July 2019 the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) published its proposed Medicare home health agency (HHA) payment rule for 2020. This proposed rule included updates to the Patient Driven Groupings Model (PDGM) scheduled for implementation on Jan. 1, 2020. This report contains a summary comparison of the overall estimated financial impact of PDGM using 2017 and 2018 claims and OASIS data. All payment information has been rounded to the nearest thousand.

Click here for the June 2019 Home Health PDGM Series report - This report series explores the data elements that drive payment under the Medicare Patient Driven Groupings Model (PDGM). All data was compiled using the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) home health claims-OASIS limited data set, which includes claims and OASIS data from 2017.

Click here for the June 2019 Hospice Proposed Payment Rates report - Below are the proposed hospice rates for dates of service beginning October 1, 2019 for each of the CBSAs in each state. As you know, CMS is proposing to rebase, or rebalance, the payment rates across the levels of care. While continuous, inpatient respite and general inpatient are proposed to see substantial increases, those increases were "pulled" from the routine payment rates to maintain overall budget neutrality. Additionally, wage index rates can have significant swings from CBSA to CBSA. Each hospice is encouraged to use historical utilization data by level of care to see how these new rates will affect overall Medicare revenues.

Click here for the December 2018 PDGM Impact on Home Health report

Click here for the August 2018 PDGM Impact report

Click here for the March 2018 Hospice report

Click here for the February 2018 Home Health report
Click here for the January 2018 Hospice report
Click here for the December 2017 Home Health report
Click here for the October 2017 Home Health report
Click here for the September 2017 Hospice report