Home Care: Prospective Payment System Refinements Top HHAs' Worry List
Agencies in South, rural areas to see biggest PPS hit
Home health agencies should take the coming prospective payment system (PPS) changes very seriously.
That's according to the attendees of the National Association for Home Care & Hospice's (NAHC) annual meeting in Denver in October. Home health agency (HHA) representatives packed sessions detailing the PPS refinements that will hit Jan. 1.
In a PPS overview held in the 5,000-seat Wells Fargo Theater, NAHC's William Dombi asked how many agencies were worried about the coming changes. The vast majority of the session's hundreds of attendees raised their hands.
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