Industry Note:
MedPAC To Call For Another HHA Pay Cut In 2017
Published on Wed Dec 30, 2015
Influential advisory body to Congress also calls for more rebasing. Soon, MedPAC won’t be able to use home health agencies’ profit margins as a club to beat them over the head with. But unfortunately, that’s because their payments are being cut to the bone. Between 2001 and 2013, Medicare margins for freestanding agencies averaged 17 percent. In 2013, the average [...]