All the payment factors included in the 2025 Home Health Proposed Rule

All the payment factors included in the 2025 Home Health Proposed Rule 
Home Health Care News; by Joyce Famakinwa; 7/8/24 
Providers examining the 2025 home health proposed payment rule may be experiencing some déjà vu, according to William A. Dombi, the president of the National Association for Home Care & Hospice’s (NAHC). “Much of what we see in the rule is just, on the payment side of it in particular, an update from ‘23 and ‘24,” he said during a recent webinar hosted by NAHC. On June 26, the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) unveiled its home health proposed payment rule for 2025. The proposal includes a payment decrease in the aggregate by 1.7%, or by about $280 million. “That needs qualification,” Dombi said. “That’s $280 million, not to what it would otherwise have been, but rather, in contrast to what it’s expected to be for 2024.” Providers examining the proposed rule will also see a 2.5% net inflation rate update. ...