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Proposed HHGM Changes Stir Up Therapists

CMS expects agencies providing more therapy visits to see bigger pay cuts under pay reform. Among the Home Health Groupings Model’s many flaws is its incentive to not furnish therapy to home health patients. So say scores of therapist commenters, many of them with decades of home health experience. When the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services issued the 2018 [...]
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