Home Health Care News December 22, 2022
Utilization of home health services fell in both urban and rural counties from January 2016 to March 2022 in the “high-utilization” categories, in part, due to the rural add-on payments.
In 2018, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) implemented a rural add-on payment, or a percentage increase, at the request of Congress. That is added to the standardized home health payment.
Lawmakers created the rural add-on to give higher percentages to rural counties with low population density.
According to a new report from the Office of Inspector General (OIG), the rural add-on did shift payments to those low population density areas. However, there were some issues in reporting those utilization figures, due to possible record-keeping errors.
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