Workforce, Medicare cuts to take center stage at NAHC’s upcoming March on Washington
By
Liza Berger
Mar 24, 2023
Home care providers will focus on the negative impacts of the workforce shortage and Medicare home health payment cuts when they converse with lawmakers during the National Association for Home Care &...
Impending onset of Medicare home health clawback payments gnaws at providers
By
Liza Berger
Jan 27, 2023
Home health providers have been laser-focused in recent months on the permanent Patient-Driven Groupings Model payment cut — 3.925% — which went into effect on Jan. 1
Enhabit execs say Medicare rates cloud home health outlook
By
Diane Eastabrook
Jan 12, 2023
Continued uncertainty around Medicare reimbursement rates could keep dogging the home health industry this year, Enhabit Home Health & Hospice executives said Thursday during a webinar sponsored by CSJ...
Amedisys CEO bullish on better home health rates
By
Diane Eastabrook
Jan 11, 2023
Amedisys Chairman and CEO Paul Kusserow forecast more favorable home health rate increases beyond 2023.
CMS to enact $635M behavioral rate cut for home health agencies next year
By
Liza Berger
Oct 31, 2022
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services said today it is implementing a 3.925% behavioral rate cut, a $635 million decrease, for calendar year 2023. This represents half of the full permanent adjustment...
Home health demand surges, but so do rejection rates, study finds
By
Diane Eastabrook
Sep 02, 2022
Home health referrals skyrocketed by 123% in May compared to 2019, according to a new report by healthcare technology firm WellSky.
Amedisys pauses home health acquisitions amid Medicare payment uncertainty
By
Diane Eastabrook
Jul 29, 2022
Home care giant Amedisys is temporarily pumping the brakes on home health acquisitions as a result of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ proposed 7.69% Medicare payment cut to home health...
Bipartisan lawmakers demand fair 2023 home health payments under PDGM
By
Diane Eastabrook
May 18, 2022
A bipartisan team of lawmakers is urging the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to draw up a home health payment rule for next year that ensures payments under the Patient Driven Groupings Model...
Peer-to-Peer: Longtime nurse takes reins of Salmon Home Care
By
Liza Berger
Apr 08, 2022
Sheryl Duclos-Zagame, RN, the new executive director of Salmon Home Care, has spent nearly all of her professional life at the same company — but she has hardly stayed in one place.
CMS expects corrections today to home health Notice of Admission errors
By
Liza Berger
Feb 28, 2022
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services acknowledged processing issues with the new home health Notice of Admission billing protocol during its home health open door forum last week.