The most alarming aspect of Medicare’s proposed revisions and reforms to the home health prospective payment system (HHPPS) is the notorious case mix creep adjustment. Medicare has proposed to reduce the base episode payment rate by 2.75 percent each year in 2008, 2009, and 2010 to “correct” for an allegedly unwarranted increase in the average…
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