August 13, 2025
[PNTG, EHAB, BTSG, ADUS, AMED, AVAH, UNH]: Where Might CMS Go with Home Health Rates?
With slightly more than two weeks left in CMS’s comment period for the CY26 Medicare reimbursement proposal rule for home health [PNTG, EHAB, BTSG, ADUS, AVAH, AMED, UNH], we continue to expect mitigation from CMS’s…
July 1, 2025
[AMED, PNTG, EHAB, ADUS, BTSG]: Medicare Home Health Rates Worse Than Expected
Home health agencies [AMED, PNTG, EHAB, ADUS, BTSG, AVAH, UNH] received a negative surprise late Monday with CMS seeking to cut Medicare home health aggregate spending by 6.4% for CY26. The agency’s proposal to impose…
June 23, 2025
Home Health: Potential Substance of Upcoming CY26 Medicare Rate Proposal [AMED, PNTG, BTSG, ADUS, AVAH]
In the upcoming CY26 Medicare payment proposal for home health (HH) agencies [AMED, PNTG, BTSG, ADUS, AVAH, UNH], which we expect within the next two weeks based on historical patterns, we think it is more…
November 3, 2024
[AMED, EHAB, PNTG]: Final CY25 Medicare Home Health Rates In-Line and Foreshadow Future CMS Rate Pressures
Key Takeaways: Changes to Medicare home health payments live up to expectations of a minimal increase, but with future negative adjustments following CMS’s release of its CY25 final rule Friday. As we wrote in mid-October,…
October 9, 2024
Harris’ In-Home Care, Vision, Hearing Aid Medicare Coverage Proposal – Likely an Undelivered Promise
We are skeptical of enactment for Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign proposal to add a Medicare in-home care benefit, along with vision and hearing aid coverage, even if she were to win (our base case)…