CMS issued the CY 2020 Home Health Prospective Payment System Rate Update, which finalized changes for PDGM. In the final rule, the behavioral adjustment has been lowered to 4.36%.

Last October, Palmetto, one of the nation’s largest Medicare Administrative Contractors to the federal government, released their Electronic Comparative Billing Report (eCBR) for 2018 data between April 1 – September 30 that focused on hospice providers’ Non-Cancer Length of Stay (NCLOS) rates.

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