tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2004 Issue 22

HOME CARE: HHAs May Win Relief From MSA Changes

Surveys,M0175 also addressed in forum.Home health agencies will face sometimes-crippling changes to their metropolitan statistical area designations in the new home health prospective payment system rule, which is due to be issued any day. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services published the new MSAs, taken from the Office of Management and Budget's redesignations last year, in a hospital payment regulation in the May 18 Federal Register, says the National Association for Home Care & Hospice. The most significant change will be dividing areas that are currently one MSA, such as Boston, into multiple areas. Some areas...

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