Industry Note:
MedPAC Wants Cuts
Published on Fri Jan 24, 2020
As expected, the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission has finalized its recommendations to Congress to cut home health and freeze hospice reimbursement, as well as reduce the hospice aggregate cap. In its Jan. 16 meeting, MedPAC commissioners approved recommendations discussed in its December meeting: cutting home health payment by 7 percent in 2021 (see Eli’s HCW, Vol. XXVIII, No. 44) and [...]