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Rate Of Redeterminations Favoring HHAs Plummets

Published on Fri Oct 11, 2013

HHA appeals caseload nearly doubles from 2011 to 2012. While the number of redeterminations for home health agencies has skyrocketed, all those extra appeals don’t seem to be doing agencies much good. Why? From 2008 to 2012, the number of first-level appeals decisions for HHA claims (redeterminations) rose a staggering 700 percent — from 13,385 to 112,844, the HHS Office [...]
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