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Reimbursement:

HHA Cuts Loom On The Horizon

Published on Tue Mar 08, 2011

Access study may pave way for more reimbursement changes. Reimbursement reductions that once seemed far off are getting closer. Last year's Affordable Care Act health care reform law contained a number of Medicare reimbursement cuts for home health agencies, noted a Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services representative at the National Association for Home Care & Hospice's recent March on Washington conference in the nation's capitol. ACA directs CMS to reduce HHAs' market basket inflation update by 1 percent in 2012 and 2013, CMS's Lori Anderson noted in a March 28 CMS panel. And from 2014 to 2017, CMS will phase in rebasing of the home health prospective payment system. CMS has started its rebasing analysis, but it's still early and the agency has no specific projections for reductions yet, Anderson told the standing room-only crowd. CMS does appear to assume there will be reductions and not increases based on [...]
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