CMS Announces New ‘Phased-In Approach’ to the Review Choice Demonstration

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced Friday it will not resume a full-blown resumption of the Review Choice Demonstration (RCD) for home health agencies in participating states later this month. Instead, CMS is “phasing in” RCD for agencies in North Carolina and Florida. Agencies in Illinois, Ohio and Texas will be […]

PDGM’s More Complex Approach to Comorbidity Adjustments Raises Doubts

The forthcoming Patient-Driven Groupings Model (PDGM) could potentially alter the way that home health providers are reimbursed for treating patients with comorbid conditions. These proposed changes should be among the elements of PDGM raising concerns for the industry, considering that they add complexity and yet could result in nearly 95% of providers getting very little […]