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LUPA Rates Go Up While Supplies Rates Decrease
Published on Fri Jul 12, 2013
LUPA add-on to get more complicated. Keep track of these tweaks to the home health prospective payment system to understand how 2014 rates will affect your bottom line. To better cover Low Utilization Payment Adjustment (LUPA) costs, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services proposes increasing LUPA amounts by 3.5 percent in addition to the usual inflation update (see chart, [...]