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HHA Cuts For 2011 Will Drive Non-Profits Out Of Business, Trade Group Warns

Published on Tue Oct 12, 2010

Home health agency rates for 2011 will be cut by 4.89 percent compared to current rates, CMS says in a release. That will strip about $960 million from Medicare spending next year. "This impact accounts for ACA provisions, wage index and market basket updates, and case-mix coding adjustments," the agency says in the release. The 5.2 percent decrease cited in last week's Eli's Home Care Week refers to the reduction in the PPS episodic base payment rate only (see Eli's HCW, Vol. XIX, No. 39, p. 306). "Nonprofit home health providers simply cannot sustain this level of cuts and maintain the healthcare services that vulnerable patients rely upon from our member agencies," protests the Visiting Nurse Associations of America. "We are disappointed that CMS has regulated additional cuts through across-the-board, untargeted case mix adjustments, ignoring our recommendations to target tough measures more carefully."
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