Advisory body favors cuts due to high HHA profit margins.
The fight will be on in Congress next year over Medicaids home health agency payment rates.
The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission is considering which of two recommendations it wants to give Congress in its March report.
Bad: The influential advisory body to Congress may recommend another rate freeze for 2010, it said in a Dec. 4 meeting. That draft recommendation is based on the average 12.2 percent profit margin it projects for HHAs in 2009.
Worse: Or MedPAC may go a step further and recommend no inflation update...
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