Health Care Financing Administration--Medicare program; cost reporting requirements for home health agencies. Final rule.
This amendment to the Medicare regulations requires that: (1) certain types of home health agencies (HHA) use the "step-down" method of allocating costs to various cost centers; and (2) all HHAs use a single method of apportioning costs between Medicare and non-Medicare patients. The revised regulation will assist in the application of cost limits to HHAs by requiring the use of uniform and improved methods of determining the cost by type of service.
D003361:Cost Allocation; D006699:Home Care Services / Q000191:economics*; D006278:Medicare / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D012051:Reimbursement Mechanisms / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D014481:United States