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Today! Alliance Webinar: CMS Imposes Another Home Health Rate Cut. Congress Must Act
On Friday, November 1, 2024, The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) issued the Final Rule regarding Medicare home health services payment rates for CY 2025. The final rate cut is 1.975% in contrast to the proposed cut of 4.067%. Continuing rate cuts raise concerns about ongoing access to home health care services as there […]
Read MoreAlliance Webinar! CMS Imposes Another Home Health Rate Cut: Congress Must Act
On Friday, November 1, 2024, The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) issued the Final Rule regarding Medicare home health services payment rates for CY 2025. The final rate cut is 1.975% in contrast to the proposed cut of 4.067%. Continuing rate cuts raise concerns about ongoing access to home health care services as there […]
Read MoreUpdate on NAHC Lawsuit over PDGM
In July of 2023, the National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC) filed litigation against the United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) in federal court in Washington, D.C., challenging the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) implementation of the Home Health Patient-Driven Groupings Model (PDGM) “Budget Neutrality Adjustment.” CMS has applied payment rate reductions of 3.925 percent snd 2.89 percent in 2023 and […]
Read MoreSenators side with home health field about access issues, problems related to funding cuts
Read MoreHelp NAHC Support the Preserving Access to Home Health Act
Bipartisan legislation has been introduced in the House of Representatives to remedy past and prevent future cuts to the Medicare Home Health payment model. Representatives Terri Sewell (D-AL) and Adrian Smith (R-NE) introduced the Preserving Access to Home Health Act of 2023 (HR 5159) last week as a companion bill of the same name (S. 2137) introduced in the Senate by […]
Read MoreHouse Lawmakers Introduce Preserving Access to Home Health Act to Prevent Harmful Program Cuts
Bipartisan legislation has been introduced in the House of Representatives to remedy past and prevent future cuts to the Medicare Home Health payment model. Representatives Terri Sewell (D-AL) and Adrian Smith (R-NE) introduced the Preserving Access to Home Health Act of 2023 on Tuesday, August 1, 2023. This legislation is a companion bill of the same […]
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