Prospective Payment System:
NPWT Switch Would Shortchange HHAs, Patients
Published on Fri Oct 07, 2016
Disposable device visits won’t count. How much are your time, expertise and other resources worth? Not much, according to a negative pressure wound therapy change in Medicare’s 2017 Home Health Prospective Payment System proposed rule. Old way: Currently, Medicare pays for durable NPWT devices under the durable medical equipment benefit, noted UnityPoint Health in its comment letter on the rule [...]