In response to multiple requests, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services ("CMS") have extended the deadline for comments on the proposed changes to the home health conditions of participation ("CoPs"). Home health providers and other interested stakeholders now have until 5:00 p.m. EST on January 7, 2015 to submit comments to CMS.
The proposed changes to the CoPs were published on October 9, 2014[1] and represent the most significant changes to the home health CoPs in seventeen years. According to CMS, the new CoPs are intended to better reflect modern home health practice by ...
Blog Editors
Recent Updates
- Last Call for Comments on the Bipartisan Discussion Draft of the SUSTAIN Act: Shaping 340B for the Future
- Indiana Senate Enrolled Act 9 Requires Written Notice of Health Care Entities’ Mergers or Acquisitions
- Connecticut Bill Calls for Office of Health Strategy to Develop a Plan Regarding Private Equity Firms in Health Care
- Revised OCR Guidance Provides New Examples, but Raises More Questions, Regarding Use of Online Tracking Technologies by HIPAA Covered Entities and Business Associates
- FDA Releases Draft Guidance on New Dietary Ingredient Notification Procedures, Timelines