MedPAC Votes Unanimously to Recommend Freeze in Home Health Pay Rates for 2008

As expected, the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) on January 9 voted to recommend that Congress eliminate any market basket index inflation update to the home health benefit in 2008. This marks the fifth consecutive year that MedPAC has made such a recommendation (NAHC Report 12/8/06); Congress has rejected it each year but 2006. Prior…