Vermont Home Care Rules/Reports

• Act 48 (Summary of Health Reform Legislation - H.202)
• Act 83 (Legislation sets 3-year moratorium for CONs for home health plus asks for new home care rule)
• Shaping the Future of Long Term Care and Independent Living
• Summary of the Rules
• Rules (PDF Format)
• Act 57 (S. 174 - Home Care Legislation)
• Act 53 (Health Resources Allocation Plan)

Links to Important CMS Documents and Information :

• Hospice Conditions of Participation

• New PPS billing and coding information

• The New PPS Rules
• Pay for Performance Information
• State Performance Review Protocol Guidance to State Survey Agency Directors
• Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
• HIPAA - Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act
• SHIP - New Hampshire/VT HIPAA focus group
• CMS's website for the Home Health Quality Initiative
• CMS's Home Care Manual
• Frequently Asked Questions on PPS
• HCFA's Home Health PPS Training Manual 
• HCFA's Interpretive Guidelines on Medicare Rules
• Medicare's Home Care Profile
• ICD-9 Coding
• Olmstead Information
• Pricer Software (Calculates PPS claims)
• V Code Changes (as of June, 2003)
• Home Care Compare
• Medicare Conditions of Participation (42 CFR Chapter 4, Part 484)

Links to State Documents/Programs of Interest

• Building Bright Futures Program
• Attorney General's Initiative on End of Life Care 
• Healthy Vermonters State Health Plan
• VT Legislature
• H. 128 - Certificate of Need (As passed by the Vermont Senate - May 12, 2003)

VAHHA's Position Papers/Testimony/Legislation:

• Testimony presented to Governor's Blue Ribbon Commission on Health Access and Affordability 

• Comments On the CON Rules

• VAHHA Statement on CON

• Statement on Medicare Payment Reductions

• Testimony to Health Access Committee

• Response to Ethan Allen Report