Hatch Asks CMS Not To Finalize Home Health Pay Cuts

By Ariel Cohen / September 22, 2017 at 7:34 PM
Senate Finance Committee Chair Orrin Hatch (R-UT) urged CMS, in a Friday (Sept. 22) letter to CMS Administrator Seema Verma, not to finalize changes to Medicare home health agencies pay in 2018 and 2019 , citing concerns that the agency may be implementing complex policy changes to the Home Health Grouping Model too quickly. The home health pay rule, which was proposed July 25, would cut nearly $1 billion from Medicare reimbursement for home health services in 2019 by changing...

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