Home Health Care News July 6, 2020
Bailey Bryant

More than six months have passed since the Patient-Driven Groupings Model (PDGM) took effect. Despite the ample runway, many home health providers are seemingly still adjusting their therapy strategies, prolonging the initial layoffs, pay cuts and furloughs that took place at the beginning of the year.

The coronavirus is largely to blame for the continued therapy adjustments.

“We probably saw a lot more effects of … the COVID crisis than we did with the inception of PDGM,” Diana Kornetti, president of the American Physical Therapy Association’s (APTA) home health section, told Home Health Care News. “That was like the double whammy, like the other shoe landing. … That really had...

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