Home Health & Hospice Week

Legislation:

Resistance Continues Against Behavioral Adjustment Cut

HHAs have only months to secure legislative change. The home health industry is fighting to head off Patient-Driven Groupings Model pay rate cuts that will also take effect in January. In the 2019 final rule, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services hung onto a “behavioral adjustment” pay reduction, estimated at 6.42 percent, for assumed clinical group upcoding, comorbidity diagnosis [...]
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