Home Health Care News July 15, 2024
Last month, the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released its home health proposed payment rule for 2025. Since then, home health providers and industry stakeholders have reacted to the proposal’s cuts, as well as other payment factors that could impact the space moving forward.
Though payment factors are top of mind, there are other areas of the proposal that providers should also be paying attention to as well.
One of these areas is the OASIS updates for the home health quality reporting program (HHQRP), which begin in January 2027.
Though 2027 is down the line, providers should begin preparing now, according to J’non Griffin, senior vice president at the home health consulting firm SimiTree.
“I want you...