New bill would delay home health payment cut until 2026

A bill introduced in the Senate Monday would delay the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services from implementing a proposed 7.69% Medicare payment reduction to home health agencies until 2026.

“The purpose of [the bill] essentially is to create what we see as an opportunity to correct where CMS is in terms of methodology and deal with the question of transparency relative to the data we asked for,” Bill Dombi, president of the National Association for Home Care & Hospice, said late Monday in a press conference at the Financial Management Conference in Las Vegas.

Other home care provider organization leaders praised the new legislation introduced Monday by home care champions Sens. Debbie Stabenow (D-MI) and Susan Collins (R-ME).

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