Home Health Care News May 25, 2023
The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently published two proposed rules that have major implications for home-based care providers.
The provision that has created the greatest waves among providers and industry stakeholders is the potential requirement that at least 80% of Medicaid payments for personal care, homemaker and home health aide services be earmarked for caregiver wages.
“This is certainly one of the biggest provisions, and it’s safe to say, the most controversial provision,” Matt Wolfe, office managing shareholder at law firm Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz P.C., said during a Home Care Association of America, and Association for Home & Hospice Care of NC webinar on Thursday.
While this is the first time this...
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