The U.S. CMS has peeled back a proposed 4.2% rate cut in the home health payment draft rule for calendar year 2023, replacing it instead with a 0.7% increase in overall payments for home health services, a category that affects sales of durable medical equipment and home infusion therapy items. That change was insufficient to mollify the National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC), which argued that the final rule will nonetheless severely hit home care providers and leaves NAHC with no choice but to take its concerns to Capitol Hill.