{"id":9940,"date":"2018-03-26T09:15:41","date_gmt":"2018-03-26T13:15:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=9940"},"modified":"2018-03-26T09:18:29","modified_gmt":"2018-03-26T13:18:29","slug":"medpac-recommends-slashing-medicare-payments-to-home-health-agencies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=9940","title":{"rendered":"MedPAC recommends slashing Medicare payments to home health agencies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission is recommending Congress slash Medicare payments to companies that provide home health services. In the most recent MedPAC report, it\u00a0states the average profit margin home health companies made 15.5 percent profit on Medicare; however, the home health industry states the margins are closer to two percent. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/big-business-home-health-1521831237-6ab99e83-a16b-43a9-bf2d-09865413469c.html\">Read article here\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/MedPAC-image.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-9942\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/MedPAC-image-300x261.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"261\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/MedPAC-image-300x261.jpg 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/MedPAC-image.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<pre>Notice: 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<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission is recommending Congress slash Medicare payments to companies that provide home health services. In the<\/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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care-finance","category-home-health-services"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9940","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=9940"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9940\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9944,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9940\/revisions\/9944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}