Tag: Medicaid rates
AAH paper makes case for preserving Medicaid rates
February 9, 2017HME News Staff
WASHINGTON - AAHomecare has released a briefing paper designed to help HME providers engage state Medicaid programs now that a new law has been passed that limits the federal contribution for HME to these programs to the Medicare rates starting Jan. 1, 2018. The paper, “States Should Not Accept Flawed Medicare Rates,” notes the unsustainable rates facing providers operating under competitive bidding-derived Medicare rates and provides perspectives on the problems with applying these rates...