Publications by Robert W. Markette

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Home Health Update: CMS Finalizes New Acceptance-to-Service Policy Requirement

[11/14/24]

Home Health PPS Final Rule for CY 2024: CMS Steps Back from the Brink

[11/28/23]

Home Health PPS Proposed Rule for CY 2024: Broad Rule Has Something for Everyone

[07/14/23]

Hospice Update: CMS Proposes Informal Dispute Resolution Program, Starting Special Focus Program and Change of Ownership Restrictions 

[07/12/23]

Home Health PPS Proposed Rule for CY2023: More Bad News for the Home Health Industry

[06/22/22]

Home Health PPS Proposed Rule CY2021: Some Good News

[06/29/20]

Medicare’s Interim Final Rule Addressing COVID-19 Provides Some Home Health and Hospice Relief

[04/01/20]

CARES Act Cares for Home Health and Hospice

[03/27/20]

Do SNFs, HHAs and Hospice Providers Need Individual Section 1135 Waivers for COVID-19 Activities?

[03/20/20]

COVID-19 Guidance for Home Health Agencies

[03/18/20]

CMS Issues Final Interpretive Guidelines for the Conditions of Participation for Home Health Agencies

[09/06/18]

Post-Acute Care Compliance Issues, Part 1: Long-Term Care, Compliance Today (January 2018).

CMS Issues Draft of Interpretive Guidelines for the Conditions of Participation for Home Health Agencies

[11/01/17]

Home Health CY 2018 PPS Proposed Rule: Here Comes a New Payment Model

[08/17/17]

CMS Finalizes New Conditions of Participation for Home Health: Part 6

[02/06/17]

CMS Finalizes New Conditions of Participation for Home Health: Part 5

[02/01/17]

CMS Finalizes New Conditions of Participation for Home Health: Part 4

[01/30/17]

CMS Finalizes New Conditions of Participation for Home Health: Part 3

[01/26/17]

CMS Finalizes New Conditions of Participation for Home Health: Part 2

[01/20/17]

CMS Finalizes New Conditions of Participation for Home Health: Part 1

[01/17/17]

After More Than Two Years, CMS Releases Final Home Health CoPs

[01/10/17]

Pre-Claim Review Demonstration for Home Health Services: Making Providers More Proactive

[06/22/16]

Home Health Prospective Payment System Final Rule 2016: Ready or Not, Here Comes Value-Based Purchasing

[11/03/15]

Companionship Services Exemption: Stay Denied – What Does This Mean?

[09/25/15]

The DOL Strikes Back: Department of Labor Wins Companionship Services Case

[08/21/15]

HHPPS FY 2016 Proposed Rule

[07/13/15]

Home Health Prospective Payment System CY 2016 Proposed Rule: Here Comes Value-Based Purchasing

[07/13/15]

MedPAC Report to Congress 2015: Oops, They Did It Again

[04/01/15]

The Exemption Lives Part II: What Was It Again?

[01/16/15]

The Exemption Lives: District Court Strikes Down the Department of Labor’s Revised Definition of Companionship Services

[01/15/15]

Happy New Year from the D.C. Circuit

[12/31/14]

D.C. Circuit Strikes Down Portion of New Companionship Services Exemption

[12/29/14]

Face-to-Face Analysis Relating to Final Home Health PPS Final Rule 2015

[11/03/14]

Are Major Changes Coming to Home Health Conditions of Participation?

[10/10/14]

Are Major Changes Coming to Home Health Conditions of Participation?

[10/08/14]

CMS Extends HHA Moratoria in Select Metro Areas

[08/11/14]

Face to Face Is Changing for the Better – CMS Publishes Home Health PPS 2014 Proposed Rule

[07/11/14]

OIG Issues Report on Home Health Agencies’ Limited Compliance with Face-to-Face Requirements

[04/17/14]

Rebasing Has Arrived – CMS Publishes Home Health PPS 2014 Proposed Rule

[07/02/13]