Post-Acute Spending Slows, CBO Says

May 8, 2000 Post-Acute Spending Slows, CBO Says Medicare spending on nursing homes and home health slowed significantly in 1998 and 1999, with home health payments seeing a steep decline, according to a report released by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO). Growth in payments for skilled nursing facility (SNF) and home health services – the fastest growing areas of fee-for-service spending in the decade before the Balanced Budget Act – slowed significantly beginning in 1998. Spending for home health care fell by 14.9% in 1998 and by an even more dramatic 34.9% in 1999. SNF expenditures, by . . .