On July 9, 2019, Connecticut Governor Ned Lamont signed into law Public Act No. 19-118 “An Act Concerning the Department of Public Health’s Recommendations for Various Revisions to the Public Health Statutes” (PA 19-118). Certain relevant provisions of PA 19-118 are described below.
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Home Health Agencies
Providing Patient Written Plan of Care Eliminated from The Joint Commission’s Standards for Deemed Home Health Agencies
The Joint Commission announced that it will eliminate a requirement of deemed home health organizations to provide the personalized written plan of care to patients. The announcement follows a communication from CMS that it will no longer require that the individualized written plan of care be given to the patients, as written in §484.60 of the Home Health Services Conditions of Participation. Effective April 30, 2018, the Joint Commission will no longer score organizations on whether they fail to give their patients a written individualized plan of care.
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CMS Issues Temporary Enrollment Moratorium on Home Health Agencies and Non-Emergency Ambulances in Selected States
On January 29, 2017, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced a temporary moratorium on enrolling Part B non-emergency ambulance providers/suppliers and home health agencies, subunits and branch locations in Florida, Illinois, Michigan, Texas, Pennsylvania and New Jersey. CMS is taking this measure “to prevent and combat fraud, waste and abuse.” The moratorium…
CMS Proposes Delay of Home Health Agency Conditions of Participation
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is proposing to delay the effective date for the revised Conditions of Participation (CoPs) for Home Health Agencies (HHAs). The original effective date was July 13, 2017. The proposed delay would extend the effective date for an additional six months, until January 13, 2018. In a previously published post, we discussed the HHA CoPs.
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