CMS.GOV: CMS Takes Action to Modernize Medicare Home Health
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has suggested changes to its payment system. The changes improve access to remote patient care services and update the payment model. Home health agencies will be able to report the cost of remote patient care as allowable costs. A new patient-driven model would make home health payments better. The old system had a 60-day payment period and used the number of therapy visits to calculate payments. The new system would only use a 30-day period and no longer count therapy visits. The changes will save Medicare providers millions of dollars and hours when they go into effect in 2019-2020.
