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…
February 19, 2025
[CHE, ADUS, Gentiva, Compassus]: CMS Grants Hospices Their Wish on SFP But Careful What You Wish For
While hospices [CHE, ADUS, private Gentiva, Compassus] are receiving a reprieve for now from more intensive oversight and the threat of termination from Medicare after CMS announced it was going to sideline the statutorily mandated…
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 17, 2024
[AMED, EHAB, PNTG]: History Suggests Slight Home Health Medicare Rate Increase, But Risk of a Cut Remains Unappreciated
Key Takeaways: Medicare reimbursement history suggests home health agencies are in store for a very low single-digit increase YoY in overall Medicare payments and their 30-day base rate when CMS issues its final CY25 payment…