Home Health & Hospice Week

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New Outlier Calculation Misses The Mark

Calculation should weight initial visit unit heavier, commenters urge. How much would your non-visit resources count under Medicare’s proposed change to the outlier payment calculation? Not much. So complained multiple commenters on the 2017 Home Health Prospective Payment System proposed rule CMS published in the July 5 Federal Register. In the new policy, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services [...]
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