Home Health Agencies to See 2.3% Fee Cut in 2012, U.S. Says
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Medicare payments to home health agencies such as Amedisys Inc. and Gentiva Health Services Inc. would fall by more than $400 million, or 2.3 percent, in 2012 under a U.S. regulation issued today.
Though the reduction is less than what regulators proposed in July and will be phased in over two years, it will leave half of all Medicare home-health agencies operating in the red in 2012, said William Dombi, vice president for law at the National Association for Home Care and Hospice in Washington.