Home Health & Hospice Week

Reimbursement:

MedPAC Sharpens Budget Ax For Home Health Rates

Influential commission calls for 5 percent cut. If you thought the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission’s yearly reports to Congress were hampering the industry’s efforts to secure adequate reimbursement, just wait for the next one. In its Dec. 8 meeting, MedPAC commissioners approved a draft recommendation to cut home health agency Medicare reimbursement rates by 5 percent in 2018. That’s compared [...]
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