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MedPAC Wants To Strip $10 Billion From Medicare Home Health Spending

Published on Fri Jan 19, 2018

Hospice would get whacked with a $5 billion budget chop. As expected, Medicare Payment Advisory Commission members have approved recommendations that would drastically reduce Medicare payments to home health agencies. As discussed in its December meeting, MedPAC wants Congress to cut Medicare payment rates by 5 percent in 2019, rebase Home Health Prospective Payment System rates over two years, and [...]
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