CMS calls for an overall 1.7 percent payment reduction in 2025 proposed rule released June 26. Medicare officials persist in implementing “deep and destabilizing” cuts for home health agencies in the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services latest proposed payment [...]
This year’s reimbursement relief, inadequate as it is, may not last long, experts predict. Home health providers are far from happy that Medicare officials have finalized a behavioral adjustment reimbursement cut for 2024, even if it’s smaller than the original [...]
Scaled-back cut won’t stave off access problems, industry reps warn. A meager 0.8 percent reimbursement rate increase for home health services next year spells bad news for both home health agencies and their patients, even if it is a bit [...]
Plus: Aide services concern undercut by reimbursement reduction. As home health providers plow their way through this year’s lengthy annual payment rule, industry representatives are taking action. Reminder: In the rule published in the July 10 Federal Register, the Centers [...]
Medicare officials are slicing deep this time. Medicare is putting beneficiaries’ access to home health at grave risk with its latest payment proposal. On June 30, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services released a 392-page proposed rule that floats [...]
Big swing in impairment levels noted post-PDGM. Ask and ye shall receive, at least when it comes to more home health statistics. In a March 29 Patient-Driven Group Model webinar required by law, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services [...]
‘Medicare has always overpaid for home health services,’ advisory body insists in new report to Congress. If lawmakers listen to the influential Medicare Payment Advisory Commission, they risk “the collapse of the whole home health system.” So warns one industry [...]
Appropriations act passed on the night before Christmas Eve. Home health agencies are getting both presents and lumps of coal in the $1.7 trillion omnibus spending bill that averts a government shutdown. The House passed the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023, [...]
Slim 0.7% pay increase isn’t enough, industry reps insist. Apparently, hundreds of home health agencies and their representatives are wrong. At least Medicare officials think so, according to the newly released home health final rule for 2023. Proposed: Back in [...]
Plus: Unnecessary therapy garners qui tam settlement. If you thought federal enforcers might slow the pace with COVID case ratcheting up and inflation wrecking providers’ bottom lines, think again. Read on for some recent enforcement highlights targeting Medicare fraud and [...]
