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Home Health Rate Cut Included In Budget Deal

Published on Fri Feb 16, 2018

Therapy caps, Medicare Advantage changes also impact home care. The newly enacted requirement for home health payment reform may be budget neutral, but other parts of the bill are not. Case in point: A section of the law requiring a case-mix update reduction will strip about $3.5 billion from Medicare home health spending over 10 years, the Congressional Budget Office [...]
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