Home Health Care News December 12, 2023
The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) recommended that the Medicare base payment rate for home health care be reduced by 7% for CY 2025.
The recommendation is another chapter in the contentious relationship between the commission and the home health industry. It also recommended that Congress eliminate any payment updates for hospice providers in 2025.
MedPAC — established by the Balanced Budget Act of 1997 — regularly informs Congress on Medicare spending and policy.
Repeatedly, its recommendations have come down hard on the home health industry.
According to MedPAC, there were about 11,300 home health agencies in 2022 that served about 2.8 million fee-for-service Medicare beneficiaries. In total, MedPAC estimates Medicare spent $16.1 billion on home...
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