tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2011 Issue 15

Home Health PPS: 2012 Cuts To Hit Therapy-Heavy HHAs The Hardest

Proposed cuts are even bigger than CMS says, industry sources maintain. How next year's proposed Medicare reimbursement cuts affect you is going to depend largely on what services you provide and how you code patients. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services proposes a 3.35 percent cut to home health agency Medicare payment rates next year, according to the 2012 prospective payment system proposed rule published in the July 12 Federal Register. That combines a 2.5 percent market basket increase for inflation, a congressionally mandated 1 percent cut to the MBI, and a 5.06 percent reduction...

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