Home Health Care News July 8, 2019
As the pages on the calendar continue to turn toward January 2020, the Patient-Driven Groupings Model (PDGM) remains a top priority for home health agencies big and small. But while the payment overhaul does mark the beginning of a new era in the industry, it can’t be providers’ sole focus.
“It shouldn’t be: ‘PDGM is all-encompassing. Once we figure that out, it’s smooth sailing,’” Fred Bentley — managing director of Washington, D.C.-based health care consulting firm Avalere Health — told Home Health Care News. “Far from it.”
The two most significant non-PDGM topics home health agencies should turn their attention to are the rising Medicare Advantage (MA) enrollment levels and the looming possibility of a unified post-acute care payment model...
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