Biden Moves to Slash Medicare Payments for Home Health Agencies

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Biden Moves to Slash Medicare Payments for Home Health Agencies

Sean Moran 1 Jul 2023

President Joe Biden’s administration moved to slash Medicare payments for home health agencies on Friday, a move opposed by both Republicans and Democrats.

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) proposed a rule that would reduce Medicare payments by 2.2 percent, or $375 million in 2024. The proposed cut means that home health agencies would have to take a 5.1 decrease of $870 million based on the assumption that the agencies altered their billing and coding activity to “maximize reimbursements in 2020 and 2021.”

Bloomberg noted that home health agencies provide care for patients in the care and convenience of the client’s home, especially for America’s seniors. Seniors usually prefer home health agencies over nursing home care.

In 2021, traditional Medicare spent $16.9 billion for home health services on behalf of about three million beneficiaries, the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission reported. Nearly 11,500 home health agencies participated in the Medicare program that year.

The Partnership for Quality Home Healthcare said that the cuts would exceed $18 billion over the next ten years and comes at a time when the industry faces rising costs and a lack of skilled nurses and patients.

CMS has made these cuts assuming it had made $2.1 billion in alleged overpayments. However, the Partnership said that CMS is using a flawed methodology to assess past overpayments.

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Biden has also moved to cut Medicare Advantage, an increasingly popular option for American seniors.

The president has proposed these cuts to Medicare Advantage while he has frequently accused Republicans of wanting to slash Social Security and Medicare.

[GtHawk]

Also from the article

Biden has also moved to cut Medicare Advantage, an increasingly popular option for American seniors.

The president has proposed these cuts to Medicare Advantage while he has frequently accused Republicans of wanting to slash Social Security and Medicare.

Once again proving what a POS he is. I think anyone who cuts Medicare benefits, especially something like the wildly popular advantage plans is going to get pilloried by the very large segment of seniors whether they are republicans or democrats, well maybe one segment will continue to vote Biden/democrat....the chronically deceased. It's always shocking(sarcasm) that the one place democrats never look to cut is the unearned largess showered upon illegals by democrats at the expense of taxpayers and now the again targeting seniors.

[Bigun]

Once again proving what a POS he is. I think anyone who cuts Medicare benefits, especially something like the wildly popular advantage plans is going to get pilloried by the very large segment of seniors whether they are republicans or democrats, well maybe one segment will continue to vote Biden/democrat....the chronically deceased. It's always shocking(sarcasm) that the one place democrats never look to cut is the unearned largess showered upon illegals by democrats at the expense of taxpayers and now the again targeting seniors.

Which is a VERY large signal that elections no longer concern them. @GtHawk

[libertybele]

Once again proving what a POS he is. I think anyone who cuts Medicare benefits, especially something like the wildly popular advantage plans is going to get pilloried by the very large segment of seniors whether they are republicans or democrats, well maybe one segment will continue to vote Biden/democrat....the chronically deceased. It's always shocking(sarcasm) that the one place democrats never look to cut is the unearned largess showered upon illegals by democrats at the expense of taxpayers and now the again targeting seniors.

   Yes, Brandon is a POS.  FJB!!

Slashing home health which is much cheaper than a nursing home or assisted living; yes, he' evil.

[corbe]

   HHC (Home Health Care) is rife with fraud.  Unfortunately, his edit will just aggravate the problem.

[Kamaji]

This is inevitable with socialized healthcare.