CMS Proposes New Home Health Pay System For 2020, Industry On Edge

CMS says in a proposed rule released Monday (July 2) that redesigning the home health pay system in 2020 to focus less on therapy and more on clinical characteristics, combined with changes to the quality reporting program proposed for 2019, would save $60 million annually for home health agencies, but the National Association for Home Care & Hospice views the new pay system proposal as simply “a modestly adjusted and 'warmed-over' version” of a highly-criticized proposal the agency floated last...