Home Health Lobby Optimistic GOP Will Offer Immediate Relief From Pay Cuts

The National Alliance for Care at Home hopes the incoming Trump administration or GOP-led Congress will immediately fix the home health pay structure, which it argues has been wrecked by CMS’ poor implementation of the patient-driven groupings model (PDGM) -- a payment system the lobby group says is costing the industry billions. Stakeholders say the model could be stopped by Congress, CMS or, after waiting on a technicality, the courts now that the Chevron deference toward agencies has been...