No, PDGM is not a new disease. It is, instead, the way Medicare now pays for home health care. Shorthand for The Patient-Driven Groupings Model, PDGM is the Trump Administration’s latest effort to ...

New Year, new reimbursement model … for our home health counterparts, that is. Just as skilled nursing providers have settled in to the shift associated with the Patient Driven Payment Model (PDPM), ...

The Biden administration issued a proposal Friday to cut reimbursements to home health providers by 2.2% next year, or an estimated $375 million less than 2023 payment levels. The Centers for Medicare ...

Regrettably, PDGM rewards waste and abuse in the Medicare program, by paying home health agencies prospectively, allowing agencies to steer the delivery of services to certain beneficiaries and to ...

As the U.S. ages and seniors opt for in-home care, lawmakers are stressing the importance of robust home health services. Still, provider and patient advocate witnesses at a Senate Finance Committee ...

Home health is an increasingly popular space for some of the industry’s largest players like UnitedHealth Group and CVS, which have both recently pursued home health acquisitions. Payers hope bringing ...

Under the Patient-Driven Grouping Model, spending on home healthcare services is down -- way down. In fact, according to an analysis from health economics and policy consulting firm Dobson DaVanzo and ...

The Patient-Driven Groupings Model (PDGM) will dramatically change home health reimbursement beginning in January 2020. PDGM is the most significant change to Medicare’s payment methodology for home ...

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It’s official: Washington has one of the most rapidly growing senior populations in the country. Between 2006 and 2016, the number of people aged 65 and older in our state jumped by a whopping 47.2%.