The CY 2025 Home Health proposed rule, CY 2025 Home Health Prospective Payment System (HH PPS) Rate Update; HH Quality Reporting Program Requirements; HH Value-Based Purchasing Expanded Model Requirements; Home Intravenous Immune Globulin (IVIG) Items and Services Rate Update; and Other Medicare Policies, just posted in the Federal Register public inspection preview. NAHC staff are analyzing the proposals and will provide a detailed summary soon. In the meantime, the summary as stated in the proposed rule is below:
SUMMARY: This proposed rule would set forth routine updates to the Medicare home health
payment rates; the payment rate for the disposable negative pressure wound therapy (dNPWT)
devices; and the intravenous immune globulin (IVIG) items and services payment rate for CY
2025 in accordance with existing statutory and regulatory requirements. In addition, it proposes
changes to the Home Health Quality Reporting Program (HH QRP) requirements and provides
an update on potential approaches for integrating health equity in the Expanded Health Value
Based Purchasing (HHVBP) Model. It also proposes a new standard for acceptance to service
policy in the HH conditions of participation (CoPs) and includes requests for information (RFIs)
soliciting input on permitting rehabilitative therapists to conduct the initial and comprehensive
assessment and the factors that may influence the patient referral and intake processes. Lastly, it
proposes updates to provider and supplier enrollment requirements and changes to the long-term
care reporting requirements for acute respiratory illnesses.
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Katie Wehri
Vice President of Regulatory Affairs, Quality & Compliance
NAHC
Washington, DC
202-240-9254 #3360
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