Baucus’ Proposal Includes Study of Home Health Add-on for Chronically Ill, Low-Income, Underserved Beneficiaries

Legislative and regulatory efforts of late are making overtures toward rebasing Medicare home health payments in the near or very near future, and a new version of the Outcome and Assessment Information Set (OASIS) is on its way to implementation Jan. 1. Meanwhile, included in Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus’ chairman’s mark of health…