Home Health & Hospice Week

More outlier revisions will lower your rates. The biggest home care cuts in the recently enacted health care reform package are years away, but other reductions and burdensome requirements will hit next year. The good news: The 3 percent rural add-on takes effect this month, noted Lori Anderson with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services at the National Association for Home Care & Hospice's March on Washington annual meeting. "This is good news for those poviders in rural areas," Anderson told attendees of the conference in Washington, D.C. CMS contemplated holding home health agency claims until the claims system update for the rural add-on was complete, but the agency ultimately decided against it. Instead, contractors will reprocess claims when the new prospective payment system pricer is released, Anderson said at the April 12 session. And while the HHA rate reductions based on rebasing home health payments and implementing a [...]