2% Cut to Home Health Agencies, Other Medicare Providers Nearing Unwanted Return
Home Health Care News
By Robert Holly | March 3, 2021

Among its many provisions, last year’s Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security (CARES) Act pressed pause on the government’s 2% payment cut to all Medicare-reimbursed health care providers.

The “sequestration holiday” was immediately seen as a common-sense lifeline for cash-strapped home health providers on the front lines of the COVID-19 pandemic, many of whom had to figure out how to pay for expensive personal protective equipment (PPE) for the very first time.

Originally, the pause on Medicare sequestration was supposed to conclude at the end of 2020. A subsequent coronavirus relief package, however, extended the holiday through March of this year — which is coming up fast...

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