Members of Congress ask CMS to Eliminate Behavioral Rate Cut in PDGM

Senator Susan Collins (R-ME) and Rep. Vern Buchanan (R-FL)  have sent two separate letters to Administrator Seema Verma, asking the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to consider eliminating the behavioral assumption rate cut currently included in the Patient Driven Grouping Model (PDGM).  As part of the PDGM payment model, CMS included a 4.36…