Medicare Program: Home Health Prospective Payment System Refinement & Rate Update for Calendar Year 2008
April 2007 Medicare Program: Home Health Prospective Payment System Refinement & Rate Update for Calendar Year 2008 The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has announced that the 2008 rates for Medicare long term care will increase by 3.3% for skilled nursing facilities and by 2.9% for home health agencies. CMS plans to increase Medicare payment to nursing homes by about $690 million. Payments to home health agencies are projected to increase by $140 million. Home health agencies will be required to submit quality-of-care data to receive the 2.9% increase; those that fail to . . .
