Partnership for Quality Home Healthcare Urges CMS to Reverse Proposed Medicare Payment Cuts for 2024 to Protect Patient Access
WASHINGTON, Aug. 30, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The Partnership for Quality Home Healthcare (the Partnership) submitted a comment letter to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) on August 29 warning that the Calendar Year (CY) 2024 Home Health (HH) Prospective Payment System Proposed Rule must not be finalized. The Partnership remains deeply concerned with the additional 5.65% payment cut to Medicare home healthcare services and the detrimental impact it will have on access to high-quality home healthcare services for millions of older Americans. Additionally, the Partnership continues to oppose CMS's methodological approach to calculating Patient Driven Groupings Model (PDGM) behavioral adjustments and urges CMS to reconsider the methodology it finalized last year.
- Additionally, the Partnership continues to oppose CMS's methodological approach to calculating Patient Driven Groupings Model (PDGM) behavioral adjustments and urges CMS to reconsider the methodology it finalized last year.
- If CMS cuts payments further as proposed for 2024, access will be decimated
The Partnership comments focus on the impact that cuts imposed under the PDGM methodology have had in 2023 and will have going forward if CMS continues its current course. - If CMS cuts payments further as proposed for 2024, access will be decimated."
- The proposed cuts come at a time when data show access to home healthcare services is declining across the board and disadvantaged populations are experiencing inequitable access.