Medicare recently announced plans to reduce funding for Home Health services nationwide by over 7.5% starting in January 2023. The impact of these cuts could be severe for NH seniors who depend on home health services to recover from injury or.
Home health agencies have written to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services protesting the proposed 4.2% payment rate cut in the 2023 Home Health Prospective Payment System Rate Update and Home Infusion Therapy Services Requirements Proposed Rule. The Partnership for Quality Home Healthcare and LeadingAge decry CMS's proposed permanent 7.69% payment cut to Medicare