Home Health & Hospice Week

Industry Note:

Post-Acute Care PPS Moves Forward, Despite Home Care Industry's Misgivings

A prospective payment system cutting across all post-acute providers has drawn major criticism from home care providers, but it’s moving forward anyway. Home care has different, varying costs compared to institutional care and a PAC PPS is likely to underfund therapy patients, the National Association for Home Care & Hospice recently argued after the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission recommended proceeding with the payment system (see [...]
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