Home health providers push back on proposed funding cuts

An important deadline passed this week: the date to submit comments to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services regarding the home health proposed payment rule.

Providers have spoken. Loudly. The National Association for Home Care & Hospice, Partnership for Quality Home Healthcare and LeadingAge (among other organizations) insisted that CMS erred in its analysis that resulted in a proposed permanent behavioral assumption adjustment of 7.69% related to the Patient-Driven Groupings Model system.

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