Home Health Care News January 23, 2025
Slashed Medicare rates are the most significant headwind pummeling home health providers in 2025.
This two-fisted conundrum includes both actual Medicare fee-for-service rate cuts as well as the historically lower rates favored by Medicare Advantage plans. As MA becomes more prevalent in health care, those lower rates contribute to revenue attrition that threaten long-term sustainability.
This issue goes beneath the surface and into the data that the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) uses in part to calculate payment rates. Cost reports submitted to the agency, for example, do not include Medicare Advantage data, David Jackson, CEO of Choice Health at Home, told Home Health Care News at the HomeCare 100 conference in Marco Island, Florida.
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