Bipartisan Bill Would Root Behavioral Payment Adjustment in Evidence

Home care organizations were pleased with a bipartisan Senate bill introduced Monday (Feb. 11) that would keep CMS from implementing any behavioral adjustment as part of a new home health pay system until the agency sees how providers react. Lawmakers introduced a second bipartisan bill on Monday, also on the home health providers’ agenda , that would allow physician assistants, nurse practitioners, clinical nurse specialists and certified nurse midwives to order home health services as opposed to just physicians. The...