Home Health & Hospice Week

One more reason a Trump administration might benefit home care providers: Potential delay or elimination of bundling proposals that aren’t finalized, says consulting and management firm Health Dimensions Group in analysis.

Specifically, “the proposed addition of hip fractures to the already mandatory bundling of Medicare-funded joint replacement episodes in 67 markets and the proposed addition of mandatory cardiac bundles in 98 markets … more likely than not … will hit a speed bump of uncertain duration,” the consulting firm predicts.

But don’t count on that pause lasting forever.  Eventually “fiscal realities will set in and budgeteers looking for savings will find that existing and proposed demonstrations are the most shovelready proposals out there,” Health Dimensions says.