In a June 26 statement, LeadingAge President and CEO Katie Smith Sloan pointed out that the CY2025 Home Health Proposed Payment Rule, which includes a proposed cut of 1.7% to home health providers, puts older adults and their families at risk of losing access to needed care and services.
“Put today’s action from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) into context: Registered nurses (RNs) are a core component of home health care,” Sloan said. “Our mission-driven and nonprofit members battle daily in a very competitive labor market to recruit and retain RNs, which are in short supply. Coupled with the Biden administration’s nursing home staffing rule’s nurse-onsite 24/7 component, already stiff competition for RNs will only grow.”
Read the entire statement here.
Please make sure to register for the Home Health Member Network. Our next meeting will be Tuesday, July 2, at 2 p.m. ET and we will be discussing the proposed rule.