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Medicare Relaxes Criteria For In-Home Vaccination Pay Add-On

Published on Fri Aug 27, 2021

Industry reps urge feds to let home health, hospice agencies administer shots. The federal government’s goal of increasing COVID-19 vaccination rates in the face of the Delta surge and new eight-month booster shots may get a helping hand from a newly revised payment policy. Old way: Effective in June, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services implemented “a new add-on payment with a national rate [...]
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