Dear Home Care Provider,
Homecare owners and administrators are crucial to our industry’s future. While agencies compete for referrals every day, we also have numerous issues of importance that require us to pull together as a team. Addressing fraud and abuse, accuracy in cost reports, and awareness of the Proposed Rule for Home Health PPS are all areas on which we can agree and collaborate. Louisiana’s top owners and administrators will be in Baton Rouge next week to hear about and discuss these areas of concern and more. The Affordable Care Act (ACA), previously called the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, should concern Medicare home health providers across the country.
Rebasing Medicare rates is also included in ACA. CMS will use our Medicare Cost Reports over the coming years to rebase the Medicare rates for 2014. Glen Langlinais and Joe Crouch, Louisiana CPAs with nearly 60 years experience between the two, will be presenting information compiled by the nation’s home health accounting experts from the Home Health Financial Manager’s Association. This presentation is aimed at assuring providers know how to provide accurate and complete information for their cost accountants.
As an added bonus attendees will also hear the latest on the Proposed Rule for PPS Home Health for calendar year 2011. Face to face encounters with physicians for certification and recertification, changes in therapy threshold documentation standards, and CAHPS (Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems) regulations will all be covered.
We hope you’ll join fellow owners and administrators for this important education and opportunity for collaboration.
Warren Hebert, RN, BSN, CAE
RWJF Executive Nurse Fellow ’06-’09
Chief Executive Officer
