After recommending a 5% cut to home health payments, the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) submitted its final report to Congress for the Medicare Payment Policy for 2018. The 17-member commission, which is tasked with recommending rate adjustments for the Medicare fee-for-service payment system to Congress, has long-stated that home health care payments are too […]
Happy Monday! To kick off your week, start with our Monday Briefing to get caught up on new you might have missed over the weekend and news around the industry. Keep reading to check out our most popular posts from last week. To start, a MedPAC update: The Medical Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC), the commission […]
No cuts based on bogus calculations. That’s the message coming from some home health care industry groups after members of the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) voted to increase cuts to home health reimbursements. The commission, which is charged with recommending payment rates to Congress for the Prospective Payment System (PPS), voted on a 5% […]
Sending off the old. That’s what happened on Jan. 20 as President Donald J. Trump was sworn into office and the former president Barack Obama left Washington, D.C., for Palm Springs, California. No matter the politics, we brought readers the latest and greatest from the home health industry. We kept you in the know about […]
After declaring home health margins were too high, members of the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) voted to affirm their recommendation to lower home health payments during a recent meeting. The decision builds off the commission’s previous sentiment that home health payments have been too high for several years. The commission, which provides recommendations to Congress […]
Integrity remains at the heart of ongoing discussions about home health care reimbursements, and rampant fraud could be cause for further payment cuts. With overpayments remaining high across the home health industry, more payment reductions are called for, as rebasing attempts to bring reimbursement rates in line with costs, members of the Medicare Payment Advisory […]
A new type of accountable care organization (ACO) is in the works for beneficiaries who account for a disproportionate share of home health spending, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced. The model may help pay for some of the sickest—and most costly—patients in coordinated care models. Dual-eligible beneficiaries qualify for both Medicare […]
More home health payment cuts are coming, and home health care groups are fighting back against further proposals to change reimbursement measures. Most recently, industry groups shot back against the Home Health Prospective Payment System Rate Update for calendar year 2017, which had an open public comment period that ended August 26. In conjunction with […]
The $180 million reduction in CY2017 Medicare home health payments proposed by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) isn’t enough and should go further, the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) wrote in a letter to CMS. The proposed changes to the Medicare home health prospective payment system (HH PPS), which were posted on […]
“Dearly Beloved, we are gathered here today to get through this thing called life.” This week, music lovers mourned the loss of Prince, but we kept you up to date on the latest happenings in the home health world. Our readers were interested in what MedPAC had to say about moving closer to a single […]
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