Standards for Privacy of Individually Identifiable Health Information; Final Rule
June 2003Mathematica Policy Research, Inc. Striking a Balance in Home Health Payment Reforms Recently, the federal government has attempted to more closely synchronize health care providers reimbursements with their costs, to ensure fiscal discipline while maintaining access and quality of care. This brief is based on Mathematicas study of the Interim Payment System (IPS), which limited the average amount that Medicare could reimburse a home health agency per beneficiary. IPS temporarily modified the cost reimbursement system while the government developed a prospective payment system that is now operational. Initially, we collected client data from agencies participating in a demonstration launched . . .
