CMS Releases Technical Report on Home Health PPS Refinements

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently released an Abt Associates' technical report entitled Refinement of Medicare's Home Health Prospective Payment System: Final Report (and Appendix), which describes the data analysis and simulations used by CMS in the development of the May 4, 2007 Notice of Proposed Rule Making and August 29, 2007 Final Rule (with comment period).  The August 29, 2007 Final Rule (with comment period) made the most significant refinements to the Medicare home health prospective payment system (HH-PPS) since the implementation of HH-PPS in 2000.