Hospice & Home Health News 2025Dec12

MedPAC recommendations for home health and hospice

On December 5, MedPAC provided their draft payment update recommendations for home health and hospice. For home health, citing continued high FFS margins, MedPAC reiterated their recommendation to cut home health payment by 7%, a position LeadingAge strongly disagrees with and opposes. For hospice, MedPAC recommended an elimination of the payment update — so a 0% change. LeadingAge also opposes this recommendation understanding that our members' costs already exceed the payment update they are receiving. LeadingAge reminds members that MedPAC payment recommendations are advice to Congress but are not binding — Congress would have to enact specific recommendations in order for them to take effect.

Here is your weekly  Home Health Weekly Recap from National.

Here is your weekly  Hospice Weekly Recap from National.