Home Health Care News July 8, 2024
Providers examining the 2025 home health proposed payment rule may be experiencing some déjà vu, according to William A. Dombi, the president of the National Association for Home Care & Hospice’s (NAHC).
“Much of what we see in the rule is just, on the payment side of it in particular, an update from ‘23 and ‘24,” he said during a recent webinar hosted by NAHC.
On June 26, the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) unveiled its home health proposed payment rule for 2025.
The proposal includes a payment decrease in the aggregate by 1.7%, or by about $280 million.
“That needs qualification,” Dombi said. “That’s $280 million, not to what it would otherwise have been, but rather,...