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Home Health Leaders Applaud House Introduction of Bipartisan Preserving Access to Home Health Act
The Partnership for Quality Home Healthcare (the Partnership) and the National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC), today, commended Representatives Terri Sewell (D-AL) and Vern Buchanan (R-FL) for introducing legislation in the U.S. House of Representatives to prevent a newly proposed 7.69% permanent cut to Medicare’s home health benefit, and an additional $2 billion in “clawback” cuts, to home healthcare services included in the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) Home Health Prospective Payment System (HHPPS) for CY2023. The Preserving Access to Home Health Act of 2022 would delay Medicare’s proposed 7.69% cut for 2023, which would total ... Read more