On July 7th, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a proposed rule (which can be found here) for the Calendar Year (CY) 2016 Medicare home health prospective payment system (HH PPS). The proposed rule would update the payment rates for home health agencies (HHAs) for CY 2016 and aims to move the HH PPS toward value-based payments. The overall impact of the HH PPS payment rate update is an estimated reduction of $350 million in payments to HHAs.
CMS will accept comments on the proposed rule until September 4th. This document summarizes several major provisions of the proposed rule.