Reimbursement:
Not Just Cuts: MedPAC Also Pushes Copays, Surety Bonds
Published on Fri Apr 01, 2016
Say goodbye to therapy money under latest recommendations. If Congress listens to the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission, it will pass these changes to home health agency reimbursement this year: a rate freeze (0 percent payment update) for 2017; two years of rebasing cuts starting in 2018; eliminating therapy as a PPS factor in 2018, concurrent with rebasing. “Home health payments [...]