Medicare To Increase Payments For Home Health Care

Modern Healthcare:
Home Health Provider Medicare Pay To Rise

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has tossed a plan to cut back house well being reimbursements by $810 million subsequent yr and can give suppliers a 0.7% pay improve that quantities to $125 million. CMS printed on Monday the ultimate rule setting Medicare charges for house well being companies subsequent yr. Home well being trade teams strenuously objected to the proposed cuts and threatened to sue if CMS carried them out. (Kacik, 10/31)

Axios:
Home Health Providers Get Reprieve From Medicare Cuts

The $125 million improve introduced Monday is a reprieve of types after the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services proposed an $810 million reduce in June. Providers hinted at authorized motion following the proposal. Instead, reductions might be phased in over two years, spreading out the ache for a well being sector that is grappled with staffing shortages and rising prices. (Goldman, 11/1)

Modern Healthcare:
CMS Increases ESRD Facilities 2023 Payment

Dialysis suppliers will obtain a 3.1% pay improve from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services in 2023, the company introduced in a last rule issued Monday. CMS will hike the bottom charge paid for dialysis companies by $7.67 to $265.57. Hospital-based end-stage renal illness suppliers will obtain an estimated 3.1% improve in funds and freestanding amenities will obtain 3%, based on CMS. Come 2023, the company may even completely bar ESRD amenities from lowering staff’ wages by greater than 5% yearly, whatever the circumstances inflicting the decline, based on the rule. (Tepper, 10/31)

The newest readmission penalties are out —

KHN:
Medicare Fines For High Hospital Readmissions Drop, But 2,300 Facilities Are Still Penalized

Federal officers stated they’re penalizing 2,273 hospitals, the fewest because the fiscal yr that led to September 2014. Driving the decline was a change within the components to compensate for the chaos brought on by the covid-19 pandemic. (Rau, 11/1)

KHN:
Look Up Your Hospital: Is It Being Penalized By Medicare?

Each yr, Medicare punishes hospitals which have excessive charges of readmissions and excessive charges of infections and affected person accidents. Check out which hospitals have been penalized. (10/31)

And in information about Medicaid —

The Colorado Sun:
More Than 200,000 Colorado Kids Could Lose Medicaid Coverage Starting Next Year, Though Many Remain Eligible For Government Help

Hundreds of hundreds of Coloradans who depend on government-subsidized medical health insurance applications may lose protection starting subsequent yr, a lot of them kids whose households in any other case can’t afford the checkups, vaccines and preventive care children want of their earliest years. It’s an issue bearing down on households throughout the nation with the federal public well being emergency set to run out Jan. 11. (Breunlin, 11/1)