tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2004 Issue 4

Home Care: NEW HOME CARE PPS RATES MAY CHANGE MORE THAN EXPECTED

HHAs prepare for inflation update revamp. The market basket index for home health agencies is back in the spotlight. A description of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services' upcoming regulatory plans is making agencies fear they'll see more than a 0.8-percent reduction to payment rate inflation updates in fiscal year 2005. CMS publishes a routine notice of annual updates to home health prospective payment system rates every year in July for Oct. 1 implementation. But the agency's most recent semiannual regulatory agenda, published in the Dec. 22, 2003 Federal Register, says CMS plans an earlier proposed rule...

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