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This Unfair Wage Index Advantage For Hospitals Needs To Go — Pronto

Published on Fri Sep 16, 2022

Policy is penalizing HHAs, expert points out. Even before the recent big wage index area shake-up, hospitals still had a competitive advantage over home health agencies due to their ability to request wage index reclassification. And that policy has got to go, multiple commenters tell Medicare officials in their home health proposed rule comment letters. “Unlike the hospitals nationally who [...]
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