tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2006 Issue 41

HHAs: Your Reimbursement Could Hang In The Balance On Election Night

How the elections may determine the fate of home care.Home health agencies (HHAs) shouldn't count on the 2007 increase to their reimbursement from Medicare just yet.Rates are slated to jump 3.3 percent starting Jan. 1, 2007, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced Nov. 1. But legislation could take away that increase--and then some.Physicians are facing a 5-percent Medicare cut this year if Congress doesn't pass legislation to stave off the reduction. That means that like last year, legislators could raid home care funding to pay for a physician fix.But this year's...

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