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Industry Note:

Congressmen Want To Cap Home Health Episodes

Published on Fri Oct 18, 2013

HHAs have a new reimbursement limit proposal to contend with in Congress. In H.R. 3245, Reps. Jim Matheson (D-Utah) and Brett Guthrie (R-Ky.) propose limiting the number of episodes for which an agency can bill to 3.3 episodes per patient in a rural area or 2.7 in a non-rural area. The limit would apply on average, not to individual patients. [...]
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