CMS is blaming the partial government shutdown
as the reason for delaying the issuance of the Final Home Health PPS Rule for
2014. The final rules should have been issued on by November 2, 2013. They
claim they will issues the final rules on or before November 27, 2013. The Final Home Health PPS Rules will go into
effect on January 1, 2014.
Home health agencies patients admitted on or
after November 3rd (who have a full 60 day episode) will be impacted
by these final payment rules. You will
not know your actual reimbursement rate until after the final rule is published
for these episodes. The proposed rules
reduces your net episode payments by an average of 1.5%, change case mix codes,
and eliminate 170 diagnoses from the case-mix codes. I guess we will all be flying by the seat of
your pants for a few weeks.
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