Home health benefit will become a 'skeleton' if Medicare payment adjustments continue, industry leader cautions

Home health benefit will become a 'skeleton' if Medicare payment adjustments continue, industry leader cautions
Home Health Care News, by Joyce Famakinwa; 1/23/24
... The 2024 final home health payment rule included a 0.8% aggregate payment increase and a permanent prospective adjustment of -2.890%, plus dozens of other notable changes to home health care. ... With these cuts, NAHC [National Association for Home Care & Hospice] has estimated that 48% of all home health agencies will have overall negative margins in 2024.