{"id":2614,"date":"2011-07-08T12:34:23","date_gmt":"2011-07-08T18:34:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/summit-education.com\/?p=2614"},"modified":"2011-07-08T12:34:23","modified_gmt":"2011-07-08T18:34:23","slug":"2012-proposed-home-care-rules-are-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/summit-education.com\/blog\/general\/2012-proposed-home-care-rules-are-out\/","title":{"rendered":"2012 Proposed Home Care rules are out!"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>Entry By: Eileen Bach, PT, M.Ed, DPT<\/h4>\n<p>CMS released the proposed rules &#8211; you can see full text at <a title=\"blocked::http:\/\/r20.rs6.net\/tn.jsp?llr=77x9yceab&amp;et=1106431820083&amp;s=15&amp;e=001-ITAHtDDUo3-V2MsqygxBuHwO9V0SbV_eL32oqobdY0lKlyYSmK0I_dI_4jMp9XEuVwpq86yRDXy4PMyurTpfV8TeVtdp9JxO5vzZhvOAYnAsW2V7qcTO3J9ZJlcYE2Z0EEufMgsz38=\" href=\"http:\/\/r20.rs6.net\/tn.jsp?llr=77x9yceab&amp;et=1106431820083&amp;s=15&amp;e=001-ITAHtDDUo3-V2MsqygxBuHwO9V0SbV_eL32oqobdY0lKlyYSmK0I_dI_4jMp9XEuVwpq86yRDXy4PMyurTpfV8TeVtdp9JxO5vzZhvOAYnAsW2V7qcTO3J9ZJlcYE2Z0EEufMgsz38=\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/federalregister.gov\/inspection.aspx<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A few significant changes are &#8211; a 3.35 % decrease in payment, lower payment amounts and changes to case-mix for select\u00a0 diagnoses and the therapy payment structure, OT serving as a qualifying service and flexibility in MD face-to-face process by allowing physicians in acute or post-acute setting to inform the certifying MD of the patient encounter. Face-to-face MD requirements would be extended to Medicaid patients.<\/p>\n<p>Additional clarification for Medicaid beneficiaries around homebound, services in the home\u00a0and DME are in the proposed rules.<\/p>\n<p>Comments are due\u00a0within 60 days, after which CMS\u00a0will review and submit the final rule.\u00a0I expect to see the 2012 in final rule format by November.<\/p>\n<p>Happy reading!<\/p>\n<p>Eileen Bach<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Entry By: Eileen Bach, PT, M.Ed, DPT CMS released the proposed rules &#8211; you can see full text at http:\/\/federalregister.gov\/inspection.aspx A few significant changes are &#8211; a 3.35 % decrease in payment, lower payment amounts and changes to case-mix for select\u00a0 diagnoses and the therapy payment structure, OT serving as a qualifying service and flexibility [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/summit-education.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2614"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/summit-education.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/summit-education.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/summit-education.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/summit-education.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2614"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/summit-education.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2614\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2625,"href":"https:\/\/summit-education.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2614\/revisions\/2625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/summit-education.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/summit-education.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/summit-education.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}