Home health keeps families together and preserves dignity for millions of Medicare beneficiaries across the country.
Proposed cuts to the Medicare home health benefit will further force agencies to close or reduce their services, pushing vulnerable seniors into costly institutional care—when they would otherwise be eligible to receive quality care from the safety of home.
The Numbers Don't Add Up
- CMS wants to cut home health payments by 6.4% ($1.135 billion) in 2026
- CMS projected 2023 spending at $23B, but actual spending was only $16.3B ($7 billion less)
- Despite CMS claiming overpayments, actual Medicare home health spending has declined every year since 2020
More Cuts = More Closures
- Agencies can't absorb proposed cuts while facing inflation and workforce shortages
- Half of all US counties have already lost home health agencies
- In over 70% of counties, agencies are treating fewer traditional Medicare patients
CMS' proposed rule will further cut the Medicare benefit and have catastrophic impacts on healthcare access by forcing home health providers to close their doors, leaving eligible patients without the essential care they need.