Industry Resources | July 21, 2021
CMS Final Rule Relating To Medicare & Medicaid Home Health Payment & HHVBP
On July 7, 2021, the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services released this final rule relating to Medicare and Medicaid home health payment and the Home Health Value-Based Purchasing model. This proposed rule would set forth routine updates to the home health and home infusion therapy services payment rates for calendar year (CY) 2022 in accordance with existing statutory and regulatory requirements. This rule also provides monitoring and analysis of the Patient-Driven Groupings Model (PDGM); proposes to recalibrate the PDGM case-mix weights, functional levels, and comorbidity adjustment subgroups; proposes to utilize the physical therapy LUPA . . .