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Medicare Program; Calendar Year (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

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services published this final rule in the Federal Register on November 7, 2024. It took effect on January 1, 2025.

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What the agency says

This final rule will 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 finalizes 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 finalizes a new standard for an acceptance-to-service policy in the HH conditions of participation (CoPs). Lastly, it updates provider and supplier enrollment requirements and changes to the long-term care reporting requirements for acute respiratory illnesses.

Key facts

Document number
2024-25441
Type
Final rule
Action
Final rule
Agency
Health and Human Services Department; Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
Published
November 7, 2024
Takes effect
January 1, 2025
Dates
These regulations are effective on January 1, 2025.
Docket
CMS-1803-F
Regulation ID (RIN)
0938-AV28
Code of Federal Regulations
42 CFR 424; 42 CFR 483; 42 CFR 484
Topics
Emergency medical services; Grant programs-health; Health facilities; Health professions; Health records; Medicaid; Medicare; Nursing homes; Nutrition; Reporting and recordkeeping requirements; Safety
Pages
132

The document on federalregister.gov PDF

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