Updates from the Medicare Learning Network
JUST RELEASED -- Special Edition MLN Matters Article #SE1025 - Consumer Assessment of Health Providers and Systems (CAHPS) Update for Home Health Agencies (HHA) The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has released Special Edition MLN Matters Article #SE1025 to remind Home Health Agencies (HHAs) about the steps they must take to meet the upcoming Home Health Care CAHPS Survey (HHCAHPS) requirements. To fulfill the HHCAHPS requirements for the CY 2012 APU, Medicare HHAs must begin participating in the HHCAHPS by September 2010. This article is informational and does not present new policy. For more details, please read the article at http://www.cms.gov/MLNMattersArticles/downloads/SE1025.pdf on the CMS website. REVISED -- Special Edition MLN Matters Article #SE1014 - Medicare Policy Regarding Pressure Reducing Support Surfaces The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has revised Special Edition MLN Matters Article #SE1014 to clarify existing support surface medical policies and coverage requirements. This article is informational in nature and reinforces existing policy. It does not present new policy. For more details, please read the article at http://www.cms.gov/MLNMattersArticles/downloads/SE1014.pdf on the CMS website. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Note: If you have problems accessing any hyperlink in this message, please copy and paste the URL into your Internet browser. Please DO NOT respond to this email. This email is a service of CMS and routed through an electronic mail server to communicate Medicare policy and operational changes and/or updates. Responses to this email are not routed to CMS personnel. Inquiries may be sent by going to (http://www.cms.hhs.gov/ContactCMS <http://www.cms.hhs.gov/ContactCMS> ). Thank you. If you received this message as part of the All FFS Providers listserv, you are currently subscribed to one of eighteen Medicare Fee-For-Service (FFS) provider listservs. If you would like to be removed from all NIH listservs, please go to (https://list.nih.gov/LISTSERV_WEB/signoff.htm <https://list.nih.gov/LISTSERV_WEB/signoff.htm> ) to unsubscribe. If you would like to unsubscribe from a specific provider listserv, please go to (https://list.nih.gov/cgi-bin/show_list_archives <https://list.nih.gov/cgi-bin/show_list_archives> ) to unsubscribe or to leave the appropriate listserv. If you know someone who would like to subscribe to a FFS provider listserv, go to (http://www.cms.hhs.gov/prospmedicarefeesvcpmtgen/downloads/Provider_Lis tservs.pdf) .
