Home Health & Hospice Week

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HHAs Mobilize To Ward Off Punishing 4.2% Medicare Pay Cut

New legislation could save agencies from a $1.33 billion cut — for now. Home health agencies are still reeling from Medicare’s proposal to reduce their payment rates by 7.69 percent based on a behavioral assumption adjustment — and now they are fighting back. At the urging of HHAs and their represen­tatives, Sens. Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.) and Susan Collins (R-Maine) have [...]
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