Key New Legislation Seeks Changes to Medicare Home Health Prospective Payment System

Senators John Kennedy and Bill Cassidy, both Republicans from Louisiana, have introduced legislation that seeks to address changes to the Medicare home health prospective payment system as made by the Bipartisan Budget Act (BBA) in February 2018. The BBA called for allowing the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to preemptively make adjustments to…

What this Week on Capitol Hill Meant for Home Care & Hospice

It has been a wild and very impactful week for home care and hospice, and many changes will be occurring in the coming years in our industry as a result of the federal budget (H.R.1892, the Bipartisan Budget Act) passed by both chambers of Congress and signed into law by the President. This law included…