Home Health Overall Margins are Far Smaller than MedPAC-Calculated Margins

An article ran last week in media outlet Axios entitled, “The Big Business of Home Health,” that covered the Medicare Payment Advisory Committee’s (MedPAC) recommendation of reducing Medicare reimbursement rates for home health services by five percent. This recommendation is in response to what MedPAC deems as a high profit margin of approximately 15 percent.…