CMS proposes home health pay changes, including remote monitoring

Dive Brief:

• Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator Seema Verma announced a slew of changes to the 2019 Home Health Prospective Payment System late on Monday, including a proposal to make the cost of remote patient monitoring an allowable cost for reimbursement.
• The proposed rule would also implement a Patient-Driven Groupings Model (PDGM) for home health payments as opposed to a Home Health Groupings Model (HHGM), which would have resulted in an estimated home health spending cut of $950 million in 2019.
• CMS estimates the proposed changes will result in increased Medicare payments to home health agencies (HHAs) of $400 million in 2019 and in a net $60 million in annualized cost savings to HHAs beginning in...

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