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tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2005 Issue 44

HOME HEALTH: HHAs Win 1-Year Transition To New Wage Index Areas

CMS announces final 2006 payment levels.Home health agencies will see a 2.8 percent increase in Medicare spending in calendar year 2006--a bit higher than the 2.5 percent increase originally proposed earlier this year.The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has set the home health prospective payment system base rate at $2,327.68, up nearly $7 from the PPS proposed rule published in July. That's about a $63 increase over the current 2005 rate, CMS indicates in the PPS final rule published in the Nov. 9 Federal Register.Like last year, the new rates will...

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