Industry Notes:
MedPAC Acknowledges COVID-19-Sparked Volume Nosedive For Home Health, Inpatient Rehab
Published on Fri Sep 18, 2020
The steep decline in home health services when the COVID-19 pandemic began isn’t going unnoticed by the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission. “Home health agencies and inpatient rehabilitation facilities experienced volume declines during the first quarter of 2020 in the 20 to 30 percent range, largely due to the cancellation of elective surgeries,” said MedPAC analyst Kathryn Linehan noted in the [...]