Impending onset of Medicare home health clawback payments gnaws at providers

Home health providers have been laser-focused in recent months on the permanent Patient-Driven Groupings Model payment cut — 3.925% — which went into effect on Jan. 1. But there is a looming cut that threatens even more instability for providers: the temporary clawback payments related to PDGM. These reductions, which are expected to total at least $3 billion, may take effect as soon as next year.

“I can’t say you can rate one as scarier than another,” Bill Dombi, president of the National Association for Home Care & Hospice, said of the permanent and temporary cuts to McKnight’s Home Care Daily Pulse. “In combination, they are a disaster.”

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