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MedPAC Sharpens Knife For HH Pay Cut

Published on Fri Dec 11, 2020

Profit margin figures seal agencies’ fate with commission. Despite the significant hit that home health agencies have taken from the pandemic, an advisory body to Congress wants Medicare to slash home health payment rates by 5 percent next year. The Medicare Payment Advisory Committee is using pre-pandemic, 2019 figures to justify its proposed recommen­dation for the reduction (see box, p. [...]
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