A nearly 4% cut in Medicare home health payments this year has forced Mary Lanning Healthcare in Hastings, Neb., to reject new patients, cut staff, and eliminate evening, weekend, and holiday care.
The health system may have to scrap home health operations altogether if Medicare implements a proposed 2.2% cut of $375 million next year.
In Lewiston, Maine, Androscoggin Home Healthcare + Hospice might shrink its service area by more than 50% if the 2024 cuts materialize. That could leave some rural areas of Maine with no in-home clinical care next year.
Both nonprofit providers claim the Department of ...
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