Home Health Reimbursement: Your Reimbursement Could Hinge on Outcomes Come 2016
Study is a step in the right direction, experts say.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is getting serious about implementing the pay for performance criterion for home health agencies (HHAs) soon, after toying with the idea for decades.
CMS is considering implementing a P4P program, now known as Value-Based Purchasing (VBP), in January 2016, the agency reveals in the 2015 home health prospective payment system proposed rule issued July 1. “If implemented, the model would begin at the outset of CY 2016, and include an array of measures that can capture the multiple dimensions...
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