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CMS Is Discriminating Against Long-Term Home Care Patients With PDGM, Bene Advocacy Group Claims

Published on Fri Mar 12, 2021

The Patient Driven Groupings Model is unfairly pushing the Medicare home health benefit to be more and more short term, says a beneficiary advocacy organization. PDGM includes a “sharp payment decline to agencies after 30 days of home health care,” the Center for Medicare Advocacy says on its website. “After the first 60 days of home health care, payments decline [...]
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