Industry Note:
HHAs Have 'Diseconomies Of Scale'
Published on Fri Mar 07, 2014
The home health prospective payment system has produced a population of for-profit home health agencies that have higher average costs per patient but lower costs per visit than their non-profit peers, says a new study in the latest Medicare & Medicaid Research Review, a CMS peer-re-viewed journal. For-profit agencies tend to have smaller scale operations, says the study headed up [...]