Regulations:
What Do Those County Categories Indicate?
Published on Fri Jan 06, 2023
Counties still eligible for an add-on have dwindled to 17%. If you’re wondering why your home health agency does — or doesn’t — receive a rural add-on payment, the answer is partly due to how Medicare categorizes your county. When Congress directed the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to phase out the add-on, here are the categories CMS used, [...]