Home Health Care News September 8, 2020
Robert Holly

For years now, the U.S. health care system has steadily moved away from a fee-for-service environment toward value-based care. Medicare Advantage (MA) growth reflects this shift, particularly when it comes to the wide spectrum of home-based care.

Currently, the average home health agency gets about 55% of its funding from fee-for-service Medicare, Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) statistics show. MA accounts for roughly 15% of the average agency’s reimbursement stream — a noticeably higher percentage than just even a few years ago.

Although most still operate primarily under private-pay models, non-medical home care providers are increasingly turning to MA, too, propelled by innovative rulemaking from the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services since the start of 2018.

But as...

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