Tag: Home Health Prospective Payment System

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Unnoticed Medical Billing Changes in 2023

While not every policy alteration by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) grabs headlines, it’s often these less-publicized changes that lead to the most billing complications. Here are a couple of recent adjustments made by CMS that you might have overlooked. New Place of Service Code CMS introduced a new Place of Service […]
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Proposed Home Health Payments

CMS Proposed Payment Cut to Home Health Agencies

Part of the reason for the decrease is attributed to a permanent adjustment in behavior assumptions. The 2024 Home Health Prospective Payment System Rate Update proposed rule released on June 30 revealed that Home Health Agencies will experience a 2.2% payment decrease in 2024 compared to 2023, partly due to a permanent behavior assumption adjustment. […]
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Permanent Medicare Payment Adjustment for Home Health

Permanent Payment Adjustment for Home Health

The federal agency released the Home Health Prospective Payment System Rate Update proposed rule for CY23, which aims to permanently adjust Medicare payment based on PDGM. CMS proposes updated Medicare payment for home health agencies CMS is looking to apply a permanent prospective payment adjustment to the home health 30-day period payment rate to account […]
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