Upcoming payment changes to the Home Health Prospective Payment System under the Affordable Care Act have made the start to the new year unhappy, according to a home health alliance that’s urging the Obama Administration to prevent or reverse the planned cuts. A final rule released the Friday before Thanksgiving cuts Medicare home health payments […]
Partnership for Quality Home Health Care
Nearly 150 House Representatives have sent a letter to the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) expressing concern regarding proposed cuts to Medicare home health reimbursements and how they could affect patient access to skilled home health care. The 142 bipartisan lawmakers signed a Sept. 25 letter urging CMS to conduct a complete analysis […]
While reforms are necessary to payment policy for the nation’s Medicare physicians, introducing a copayment on Medicare home health beneficiaries isn’t the way to go about it, says a home health advocacy group that is pushing instead for stronger measures against fraud. The House Ways and Means Committee has invited industry stakeholders to comment on […]
Nearly half of all seniors in the United Sates are “economically vulnerable” and could be especially at risk in the event Medicare reinstates copayments for home health beneficiaries, say home health leaders citing new research. Just under 20 million Americans have incomes lower than 200% of the supplemental poverty threshold, according to an Economic Policy […]
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