Home Health Leaders Applaud Introduction of Bipartisan Legislation to Block Deep Cuts to Medicare Home Health

PR Newswire July 25, 2022
Partnership for Quality Home Healthcare and National Association for Home Care & Hospice

Bipartisan legislation would prevent the implementation of steep Medicare cuts to home health services totaling $18 billion over the next decade

WASHINGTON, July 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — The Partnership for Quality Home Healthcare (The Partnership) and the National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC) today applauded bipartisan lawmakers in the U.S. Senate for introducing new legislation to prevent a newly proposed 7.69% permanent cut, and an additional $2 billion in “clawback” cuts, to home healthcare services included in the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) Home Health Prospective Payment System (HHPPS) for CY2023.

Introduced in the U.S. Senate by Senators Debbie Stabenow (D-MI) and Susan Collins (R-ME), The Preserving Access to Home Health Act of 2022 S. 4605...

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