Prospective Payment System:
Outlier Changes Will Reduce Access For Costly Diabetics
Published on Fri Oct 21, 2016
One-third of outlier episodes wouldn’t receive payments under new methodology. Every minute will count if Medicare finalizes its proposed changes to the outlier reimbursement policy under the Home Health Prospective Payment System. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services wants to scale back how many outlier patients receive extra reimbursement under PPS, according to the 2017 proposed PPS rule CMS [...]