Home health providers raise alarm over proposed payment changes

WASHINGTON — Advocates say a new rule could result in cuts in payments to agencies in Vermont that provide health services in patients’ homes.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services proposed a rule that would change how payments are made to home health service agencies under Medicare.
The proposal includes shortening the period of care — from 60 days to 30 — that is used as the basis for Medicare payments to service providers.Jill Mazza Olson of VNAs of Vermont. C