The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released its delayed and much-anticipated CY 2026 home health final payment rule on Friday, ...

Regrettably, PDGM rewards waste and abuse in the Medicare program, by paying home health agencies prospectively, allowing agencies to steer the delivery of services to certain beneficiaries and to ...

The Biden administration issued a proposal Friday to cut reimbursements to home health providers by 2.2% next year, or an estimated $375 million less than 2023 payment levels. The Centers for Medicare ...

New Year, new reimbursement model … for our home health counterparts, that is. Just as skilled nursing providers have settled in to the shift associated with the Patient Driven Payment Model (PDPM), ...

As the U.S. ages and seniors opt for in-home care, lawmakers are stressing the importance of robust home health services. Still, provider and patient advocate witnesses at a Senate Finance Committee ...

No, PDGM is not a new disease. It is, instead, the way Medicare now pays for home health care. Shorthand for The Patient-Driven Groupings Model, PDGM is the Trump Administration’s latest effort to ...

Under the Patient-Driven Grouping Model, spending on home healthcare services is down -- way down. In fact, according to an analysis from health economics and policy consulting firm Dobson DaVanzo and ...

The National Association for Home Care and Hospice has filed a lawsuit against the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and the United States Department of Health and Human Services that ...

The Patient-Driven Groupings Model (PDGM) will dramatically change home health reimbursement beginning in January 2020. PDGM is the most significant change to Medicare’s payment methodology for home ...

The next in our series of posts sharing key takeaways from panels at the Healthcare & Life Sciences Private Equity and Lending Conference is authored by our colleagues Trey Andrews and Jeff Alberg.