Ensuring Accurate Medicare Cost Reports: A Key to Effective Advocacy for the Industry

Are inaccurate Medicare cost reports hurting you in the long run? Based on data from self-reported Medicare home health cost reports of providers enjoying an aggregate 20% profit margin, CMS has proposed year-after-year cuts to home health payments, seen most recently in the 2025 final rule.

Join the National Alliance for Care at Home and Axxess on Thursday, December 5, 2024 at 12 p.m. CST for a live industry webinar, “Ensuring Accurate Medicare Cost Reports: A Key to Effective Advocacy for the Industry,” co-sponsored by The National Alliance for Care at Home, HHFMA, Forvis Mazars and Axxess.

Learn about the critical nature of preparing accurate annual Medicare cost reports for your home health and hospice organizations. Hear about the direct correlation of our industry-reported aggregate data on MedPAC’s annual recommendations to Congress and why that has resulted in Medicare reimbursement cuts year after year. And understand how our cost report data influences CMS’ regulatory policy setting and final rule making.

Expert panelists include

• Steven Landers, MD, MPH, CEO of The National Alliance for Care at Home;
• Mark Sharp, CPA, and Partner for Home Care & Hospice at Forvis Mazars; and
• Jennifer F. Sheets, Acute and Post-Acute Healthcare Strategy Executive, Board Member for the National Alliance for Care at Home and Board Chair for Research Institute for Home Care.

The conversation will be moderated by Deborah R. Hoyt, Senior Vice President of Public Policy for Axxess.