Posting of the Calendar Year 2023 Home Health Prospective Payment System Final Rule

On Monday afternoon, 10/31/22, CMS released the 2023 Final Rule for Home Health. Some details include:

  • A 0.7 percent increase rather than the 7.69% behavior adjustment as proposed in the CY 2023 Home Health Proposed Rule.

  • CMS finalized a proposal to end the suspension of the collection of Outcome and Assessment Information Set (OASIS) data on non-Medicare/non-Medicaid patients under section 704 of the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003, and to require HHAs to report all-payer OASIS data for purposes of the HH QRP, beginning January 1, 2025.

  • CMS has also finalized updates to regulatory text to consolidate statutory references to data submission and to codify in regulations the HH QRP measure removal factors previously finalized via rulemaking.

The complete Home Health PPS Final Rule is available by using the following link: 

https://public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2022-23722.pdf.

Becky Crabtree