Notice2025-11986
Termination of Home Health Value-Based Purchasing Demonstration
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Published
June 30, 2025
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Defense Department
Abstract
This notice is to advise interested parties of the termination of the DHA's Home Health Value-Based Purchasing (HHVBP) Demonstration. On November 9, 2021, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) published a final rule announcing the termination of the original Medicare HHVBP Model one year early for home health agencies (HHAs) in the nine original model states. This serves as formal notice that DHA also terminated the HHVBP demonstration applicable in the original nine model states. Due to the limited time this demonstration was active, there was insufficient data to draft a report detailing findings.
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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 123 (Monday, June 30, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 27856-27857]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-11986]
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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
Office of the Secretary
Termination of Home Health Value-Based Purchasing Demonstration
AGENCY: Defense Health Agency (DHA), Department of Defense.
ACTION: Notice of termination of the DHA's Home Health Value-Based
Purchasing Demonstration.
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SUMMARY: This notice is to advise interested parties of the termination
of the DHA's Home Health Value-Based Purchasing (HHVBP) Demonstration.
On November 9, 2021, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
(CMS) published a final rule announcing the termination of the original
Medicare HHVBP Model one year early for home health agencies (HHAs) in
the nine original model states. This serves as formal notice that DHA
also terminated the HHVBP demonstration applicable in the original nine
model states. Due to the limited time this demonstration was active,
there was insufficient data to draft a report detailing findings.
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DATES: DHA's current HHVBP model ended December 31, 2021.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Duncan Moskowitz, 303-676-3582,
<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#593d2c373a383777297734362a32362e302d23773a302f19313c38352d3177343035"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="2f4b5a414c4e41015f0142405c444058465b55014c46596f474a4e435b4701424643">[email protected]</span></a>. Questions regarding payment of
specific claims should be addressed to the appropriate TRICARE
contractor.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On September 25, 2019, the DHA published a
Federal Register notice (``TRICARE; Civilian Health and Medical Program
of the Uniformed Services (CHAMPUS); Adoption of Medicare's Home Health
Value-Based Purchasing (HHVBP) Adjustments for Reimbursement Under
TRICARE's Home Health Prospective Payment System Demonstration'')
adopting CMS' HHVBP Model as a demonstration for the TRICARE program
(84 FR 50416). The purpose of the HHVBP demonstration was to improve
the quality and delivery of home healthcare, and incentivize those HHAs
that provide higher quality, more efficient care, as well as evaluate
the administrative feasibility of adopting HHVBP adjustments under the
TRICARE program. It was expected that adoption of the HHVBP model would
strengthen the impact of the incentives included within the model by
adding TRICARE's market share to CMS'.
DHA's adoption of CMS's HHVBP was consistent with section 705(a) of
the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2017. The
adoption of this model established a new value-based demonstration
within the TRICARE program, based on CMS' similar model.
The notice stated that DHA's HHVBP demonstration would be effective
January 1, 2020, through December 31, 2022, unless terminated earlier
by CMS or by TRICARE. On November 9, 2021, the CMS published a final
rule (86 FR 62240) in the Federal Register announcing the termination
of the original Medicare HHVBP Model one year early for HHAs in the
nine original model states. Director, DHA hereby gives notice that the
DHA's original HHVBP demonstration ended December 31, 2021. Due to the
limited time this demonstration was active, there was insufficient data
for DHA to draft a report detailing the findings of this demonstration
and potential next steps.
Dated: June 25, 2025.
Aaron T. Siegel,
Alternate OSD Federal Register Liaison Officer, Department of Defense.
[FR Doc. 2025-11986 Filed 6-27-25; 8:45 am]
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