All states to require EVV for Medicaid-funded personal care services by 2019.

Medicaid Cost Report submissions are due in July.

Plan details OMIG’s intended areas of review in home health, long term care services, and Medicaid managed care.

Draft recommendations focus on the Certificate of Need process.

Recommendations include guidance for post-acute care collaborations; elimination of the PRI for nursing home admissions; investment in information technology and telehealth; consumer and provider education on hospice, palliative care, and advance care planning; and changes in the originating site limits for telehealth services.

Spending bill signed into law on Fri., Feb. 9^th will have both positive and negative impacts on home health care.

Revised Medicaid CHHA and Hospice rates are based on the minimum wage survey data received from the provider community.

Guidance authorizes and encourages health care provider collaboration initiatives to streamline and improve post-acute care.