PDGM Benchmarking & Trends: What Have We Learned After 2 Years
2:15pm - 3:15pm Concurrent Session
Presented by Brian Harris, Director of Financial Consulting and John Rabbia, PT, DPT, MS, MBA, COS-C, Senior Manager, SimiTree PDGM was implemented as the new Medicare HH prospective payment system in CY 2020. Assessing the trends and benchmarks of PDGM is an important step to determine how your agency is performing under this new program. COVID-19 definitely complicated the PDGM roll-out and tracking these changes is important. For CY 2021, CMS chose not to make any new payment adjustments due to behavioral changes. What does the data show regarding behavioral changes compared to CMS’s original estimations, and what will we likely see in PDGM changes for CY 2022.