This final rule makes changes to the hospice CoPs regarding hospice aide competency evaluation standards. In response to the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency (PHE), CMS issued a number of regulatory waivers in order to support providers and suppliers involved in patient care. These waivers promoted greater flexibility and reduced burden, allowing hospices to focus on … Read more

OnlineDentalInsurance.com provides you with free dental insurance and dental discount plan quotes so that you can compare dental plans and choose the one the best fits you or your family dental care needs.  Having a broad range of the insurance and plan options will provide you with more choices and benefit options that will be … Read more

This final rule rebases and revises the labor shares for all four levels of care: routine home care, continuous home care, inpatient respite care, and general inpatient care based on the compensation cost weights for each level of care from the 2018 Medicare cost report data for freestanding hospices. The final FY 2022 labor shares … Read more

Share opens in new window opens in new window opens in new windowOn July 29, 2021, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a final rule (CMS-1754-F) that updates Medicare hospice payments and the aggregate cap amount for FY 2022 in accordance with existing statutory and regulatory requirements. This rule rebases the hospice … Read more

OnlineDentalInsurance.com let you compare multiple dental insurance plan from lower cost plans HMO insurance plans and dental discount plans. As well as Dental PPO’s and Free choice of providers plans called indemnity dental insurance plans.  Not only do we provide different plan types depending on the state you are in but we provide our dental … Read more

Dental discount plans are a low cost alternative to dental insurance. With a dental discount plan cost can normally run around $7.95 – $9.95 a month for an individual and $9.95 – $15.00 a month for families.  These low cost discount plans provide saving off of all your dental care needs done by a plan … Read more

CMS continues to seek to develop a comprehensive set of quality measures to be available for widespread use for informed decision-making and quality improvement in the IPF setting. Therefore, CMS sought information on potential future measures in the following areas that CMS believes are important to stakeholders, but which are not covered in the current … Read more

Generally cost assistance only applies to major medical coverage and not dental plans. However if you get a marketplace plan that includes dental insurance, it will only have one premium which Premium Tax credits can be applied to. You cannot apply Tax Credits to a stand-alone dental plan.

Here is a quick summary of what you need to know about dental, your rights, and how cost sharing works on dental plans: A child must be offered dental, but you don’t have to take it.   If you have dental coverage through the Marketplace it will typically have a maximum of $700 for a child … Read more

CMS is not finalizing removal of the Alcohol Use Brief Intervention Provided or Offered and Alcohol Use Brief Intervention (SUB-2/2a) measure or the Tobacco Use Treatment Provided or Offered and Tobacco Use Treatment (TOB-2/2a) measure in response to comments indicating that these measures still provide benefits that outweigh the costs of retaining them in the … Read more

Did you know that dental insurance, for the most part, is not covered under the Affordable Care Act?  However, children’s dental coverage is a required benefit included on all Affordable Care Act compliant plans and cost assistance can be applied to any Marketplace plan that includes dental.     Although Dental is not a required … Read more

CMS proposed to remove three chart-abstracted measures from the IPF QRP for the FY 2024 payment determination and subsequent years because the costs associated with these measures outweigh the benefits of continuing to retain them in the IPF QRP. CMS is finalizing removal of one of these measures (Timely Transmission of Transition Record (Discharges from … Read more

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For the FY 2023 payment determination and subsequent years, CMS is finalizing its proposal to adopt the COVID-19 Vaccination Coverage Among Healthcare Personnel (HCP) measure to the IPF QRP. The measure addresses the quality priority of “Promote Effective Prevention & Treatment of Chronic Disease” through the Meaningful Measures domain of Preventive Care. The process measure … Read more

The IPF QRP requires IPFs to submit quality data to CMS in accordance with the IPF QRP’s requirements or receive a payment reduction of 2.0 percentage points to their annual update. CMS makes the IPF QRP data submitted by IPFs publicly available. This public reporting helps consumers make more informed decisions about their health care … Read more

In FY 2022 and for subsequent years, CMS is adopting conforming changes to the IPF PPS teaching policy with respect to displaced residents from IPF hospital closures and closures of IPF teaching programs, thus aligning IPF teaching policy with changes that the Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS) finalized in the FY 2021 IPPS/LTCH PPS final … Read more