{"id":15250,"date":"2020-02-18T08:12:34","date_gmt":"2020-02-18T13:12:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=15250"},"modified":"2020-02-18T08:12:34","modified_gmt":"2020-02-18T13:12:34","slug":"why-a-medicare-payment-change-is-causing-home-health-agencies-to-cease-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=15250","title":{"rendered":"Why a Medicare payment change is causing home health agencies to cease services"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Morgan Haefner for <em>Becker&#8217;s Hospital Review<\/em>)<\/p>\n<p>A change to how Medicare pays for home health services has led to some agencies ending services for beneficiaries, according to The Washington Post.<\/p>\n<p>Six things to know:\u00a0 Continue reading article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beckershospitalreview.com\/finance\/why-a-medicare-payment-change-is-causing-home-health-agencies-to-cease-services.html\">here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/dreamstime_m_33572724medicare.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7817\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/dreamstime_m_33572724medicare-300x157.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"157\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/dreamstime_m_33572724medicare-300x157.jpg 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/dreamstime_m_33572724medicare-768x402.jpg 768w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/dreamstime_m_33572724medicare-1024x536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/dreamstime_m_33572724medicare-390x205.jpg 390w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<pre><strong>Notice:<\/strong> The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Morgan Haefner for Becker&#8217;s Hospital Review) A change to how Medicare pays for home health services has led to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care-finance","category-home-health-services","category-medicare-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15250"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15251,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15250\/revisions\/15251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}