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

By Dorothy Mills-Gregg / November 27, 2024 at 12:49 PM
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...


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