New Home Health Rules Effective in January 2018—Some Traps for the Unwary
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) have issued new Conditions of Participation (CoP) for home health agencies (HHA) that are effective January 13, 2018. The CoP were originally scheduled to take effect on July 13, 2017; a final rule delaying the effective date until January 13, 2018 was issued this past summer. CMS…