At the end of January 2016, CMS extended the moratorium on its enrollment of home health agencies in Ft. Lauderdale, Miami, Dallas, Houston, Chicago, and Detroit. The newly renewed moratorium will extend over the next 6 months unless it is renewed once again.
The moratorium has been in effect since the summer of 2013 and extends from one to a handful of counties surrounding each city listed.
- Fort Lauderdale, FL: Broward County
- Miami, FL: Miami-Dade and Monroe Counties
- Chicago, IL: Cook, DuPage, Kane, Lake, McHenry, and Will Counties
- Detroit, MI: Macomb, Monroe, Oakland, Washtenaw, and Wayne Counties
- Dallas, TX: Collin, Dallas, Denton, Ellis, Kaufman, Rockwall and Tarrant Counties
- Houston, TX: Brazoria, Chambers, Fort Bend, Galveston, Harris, Liberty, Montgomery and Waller Counties
The formal announcement was published in the February 2, 2016 Federal Register. If you already have a Home Health License and Medicare Certification and are operating in one of the above named counties, you can continue doing business in these areas. Otherwise, you must be in a County not named on this list to obtain a new Medicare Enrollment for home health services.
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