On October 29th, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a final rule for the Calendar Year (CY) 2016 Medicare home health prospective payment system. The final rule will update the payment rates for home health agencies (HHAs) for CY 2016 and aims to move home health toward value-based payments. CMS projects that Medicare payments to HHAs in CY 2016 will be reduced by 1.4 percent, or $260 million total.
The attached document summarizes several major provisions of the final rule. The final rule is available here.