Home care updates
By Jane Danner | January 10, 2025 | Home care providers
OASIS privacy notice update
As required by the HH Conditions of Participation (COP), an OASIS privacy notice must be provided to all patients for whom the OASIS data is collected. Due to the transition to OASIS data collection for all patients, the OASIS Privacy Notice must be provided regardless of payer, effective January 1, 2025.
- Beginning January 1, 2025, Home Health Agencies should only provide patients with the CMS Privacy Act Statement and Attachment A–Statement of Patient Privacy Rights
- These forms are available on the “Home Health Agency (HHA) Center” webpage in the OASIS section; both documents are available in English and Spanish
- Beginning January 1, 2025, and until further notice, Attachment C–Notice About Privacy for Patients Who Don’t Have Medicare or Medicaid should not be provided to patients
CY2025 Home Health Prospective System final rule update
A correction notice to the CY2025 Home Health Prospective System Final Rule is now available. The
CY2025 final rule, which displayed at the
Federal Register on November 1, 2024, included the wrong low comorbidity subgroup list. The rule contains policies effective January 1, 2025. See both the
CY2025 Final Low Comorbidity and High Comorbidity Adjustment Interactions (ZIP) file in the “Downloads” section and the “
Home Health PPS Grouper Software (HHGS)” page on the CMS website for the correct low comorbidity subgroups effective January 1, 2025.
Jane Danner | Director of Regulatory Services |
jdanner@careproviders.org | 952-851-2489