Prospective Payment System:
CMS Is Fine With Agencies Closing
Published on Fri Nov 04, 2016
‘Home health market ... to remain robust,’ CMS maintains. Many commenters on the 2017 HH PPS proposed rule warned Medicare that continuing to ratchet down home health agency payment rates will result in reduced access to cost-saving home care services. But the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services doesn’t agree. The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission “concluded that, as a result [...]