Home Health & Hospice Week
MedPAC Wants Therapy Out Of PPS Equation
Commission won’t let copay issue drop.
In addition to a rate freeze, the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission has a few more recommendations for Congress.
MedPAC wants the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to eliminate therapy as a factor in the home health prospective payment system, it said at its December and January meetings.
MedPAC also wants CMS to undertake more rebasing. Medicare should implement a two year rebasing initiative in 2017. That would be on top of any case mix creep adjustments, and would follow years of rebasing that have already cut reimbursement to HHAs.
The therapy change would be budget-neutral, but would redistribute payments, MedPAC’s Evan Christman noted in the Commission’s December meeting. Rebasing would reduce home health spending by up to $10 billion over five years.
MedPAC is also expected to reiterate previous years’ recommendations to add a home health copayment and increase fraud-fighting activities, commissioners indicated in the December meeting.
Stay tuned: Look for MedPAC’s March report to Congress to see the final form of the recommendations.
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