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Rule 5 Aug 2025 centers for medicare and medicaid services, reporting and recordkeeping requirements, regulation, medicare, quality reporting, payment rates, health facilities, hospice, compliance, healthcare

💰Medicare Hospice Wage Index and Payment Rate Update for FY 2026

This final rule updates the hospice wage index, payment rates, and aggregate cap amount for Fiscal Year (FY) 2026. This rule also finalizes changes to the admission to hospice regulations and the hospice face-to-face attestation requirements under the certification of terminal illness regulations and includes technical changes to the hospice telehealth policy and wage index. This final rule also includes a technical correction to the regulatory text and provides updates to the Hospice Quality Reporting Program requirements.

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Proposed Rule 2 Jul 2025 administrative practice and procedure, reporting and recordkeeping requirements, medicare, health professions, health facilities, investigations, rural areas, medicaid, fraud, healthcare compliance, medical devices, grant programs-health, diseases, drugs, biologics, payment rates, quality reporting, x-rays, home health, emergency medical services, durable medical equipment

🏥Medicare and Medicaid Proposed Rule on Home Health Payment Updates

This proposed rule would set forth routine updates to the Medicare home health payment rates in accordance with existing statutory and regulatory requirements. In addition, this proposed rule proposes permanent and temporary behavior adjustments and proposes to recalibrate the case-mix weights and update the functional impairment levels; comorbidity subgroups; and low-utilization payment adjustment (LUPA) thresholds for CY 2026. Lastly, this proposed rule proposes policy changes to the face-to-face encounter policy. It also proposes changes to the Home Health Quality Reporting Program (HH QRP) and the expanded Health Value-Based Purchasing (HHVBP) Model requirements. In addition, it would update the Durable Medical Equipment, Prosthetics, Orthotics, and Supplies (DMEPOS) Competitive Bidding Program (CBP). Lastly it proposes: a technical change to the HH conditions of participation; updates to DMEPOS supplier conditions of payment; updates to provider and supplier enrollment requirements; and changes to DMEPOS accreditation requirements.

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Proposed Rule 30 Apr 2025 healthcare, hospice, reporting and recordkeeping requirements, payment rates, regulatory compliance, medicare, health facilities

🏥Proposed FY 2026 Medicare Hospice Wage Index and Payment Rate Update

This proposed rule would update the hospice wage index, payment rates, and aggregate cap amount for Fiscal Year (FY) 2026. This rule also proposes changes to the admission to hospice regulations and the hospice face-to-face attestation requirements under the certification of terminal illness regulations. This proposed rule also includes a technical correction to the regulatory text and provides updates to the Hospice Quality Reporting Program requirements. Finally, this proposed rule solicits comments regarding requests for information surrounding future measure concepts for Hospice Quality Reporting Program.

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