Home health agencies protest 2023 proposed payment rate cuts

Home health agencies have written to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services protesting the proposed 4.2% payment rate cut in the 2023 Home Health Prospective Payment System Rate Update and Home Infusion Therapy Services Requirements Proposed Rule.

The Partnership for Quality Home Healthcare and LeadingAge decry CMS’s proposed permanent 7.69% payment cut to Medicare home health services beginning in 2023, as well as clawback cuts totaling $2 billion beginning in 2024 for services already provided during the first two years of the pandemic.

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