Analysis of the Home Health PPS Proposed Rule

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) published the proposed calendar year (CY) 2016 Home Health Prospective Payment System (HH PPS) Rule that would, among other things, introduce the Value-Based Purchasing (VBP) model for home care. LeadingAge New York has analyzed the HH PPS in its entirety; please click here to review.

LeadingAge NY has been in contact with LeadingAge national and the second conference call to formulate our response to the proposed rule will be held on Wed., Aug. 19th, at 12 p.m.

• The call in number is 866-266-3378
• Conference ID 2025089406
• Participant code 5277

Included in our analysis are:

• Brief summary on VBP;
• Updated home health wage index as of August 2015;
• Update on the third year of the four-year rebasing; and,
• Updated case-mix weights as of Aug. 4th. 

Please contact me regarding your concerns or questions.

Contact: Cheryl Udell, cudell@leadingageny.org, 518-867-8871