Value-Based Purchasing: Is Your State In The Pilot?
Even if it’s not now, it may be by the fall.
If your state is in Medicare’s Value-Based Purchasing program for home health agencies, you’ll have to worry about your outcomes affecting your reimbursement sooner rather than later. The states proposed for inclusion are:
Massachusetts,
Maryland,
North Carolina,
Florida,
Washington,
Arizona,
Iowa,
Nebraska, and
Tennessee.
These states may change in the final rule, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) cautions in the home health prospective payment system proposed rule released July 6. CMS “randomly” chose the states from nine geographic groupings, it says...
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