Prospective Payment System: PPS Rates To Stay Flat Next Year

But watch out for legislative reimbursement cuts.For the first time in years, home health agencies won't see a cut to their prospective payment system base rate in 2013 if a new proposed rule is finalized. But HHAs shouldn't cheer quite yet.The home health PPS episodic rate would rise a miniscule 0.0016 percent under the new 2013 PPS proposed rule, published [...]