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August 29, 2007
 Medicare Program; Home Health Prospective Payment System Refinement &
Rate Update for Calendar Year 2008; Final Rule
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Centers for Medicare and
Medicaid Services (CMS) final rule features updates to the Medicare home
health prospective payment system. According to the rule, CMS will
increase home health agency prospective payment rates by three percent in
2008 over the 2007 rates. In order to qualify for the rate increase,
agencies must report on 12 quality measures in the Outcome and Assessment
Information Set (OASIS); this includes the 10 previous OASIS data points
and two new measures:
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