CMS Proposes To Cut Home Health Pay 1.5%, Add 2 Quality Measures

CMS Proposes To Cut Home Health Pay 1.5%, Add 2 Quality Measures-insidehealthpolicy: CMS on Thursday (June 27) proposed cutting pay to home health care services in 2014 by 1.5 percent, which would be a reduction of $290 million compared to this year's rate. The proposed pay rule also would add two claims-based quality measures and remove two categories of ICD-9-CM codes from the prospective-pay grouper. The 1.5 percent pay cut is the net result of several adjustments: 2.4 percent home health pay increase ($460 million increase); rebasing the national, standardized 60-day episode pay rate, the national per-visit pay rates, and the non-routine medical supplies (NRS) conversion factor ($650 million decrease); and ICD-9-CM coding adjustments ($100 million decrease).