Providers urge CMS to halt implementation of home health proposed rule

In a pre-comment letter to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, two major home care organizations sought to “sound the alarm” for the agency about the impact of proposed home health reductions. They outlined the perceived damage that proposed reimbursement cuts will have on agencies’ ability to provide quality care to patients.

The proposed cuts “must not be finalized,” the National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC) and the Partnership for Quality Home Healthcare said in the letter dated July 28 to CMS Administrator Chiquita Brooks-LaSure. “Doing so risks irreparable fracturing of the foundation of skilled home health care in America and the erosion of seniors’ ability to receive care in their home.”

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