Home Health Care News June 22, 2021
Andrew Donlan

A year and a half into the Patient-Driven Grouping Model (PDGM), home health agencies’ feelings on the overhaul still vary.

And even if PDGM hasn’t been the “boogeyman” that was expected, it still needs tinkering from the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), some insiders believe.

“I think the data clearly shows that CMS was not on top of the information that they had on hand at the time,” Arlene Maxim, a clinical consultant at Axxess, said on a webinar Tuesday. “Statistically, it was not on target in their projections as to how we would function as an industry. Clearly, they have some things to clean up.”

Dallas-based Axxess is a home health technology company that provides agencies...

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