Home Health & Hospice Week

In the 2011 prospective payment system proposed rule, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services finally sets out four exceptions to the rule. They include:

• a publicly traded company purchasing another home health agency, when both have filed cost reports for five years;

• an HHA parent company undergoing an internal restructuring such as a merger or consolidation when the HHA has submitted a cost report for five years;

• the owners of an existing HHA decide to change the business structure, such as a partnership to a limited liability corporation, when the majority ownership remains unchanged; and

• the death of an owner who owns 49 percent or less.