Home Health Providers Pursue Joint Ventures During CMS Enrollment Moratorium
CMS imposed a six-month moratorium on new Medicare home health enrollments, limiting traditional expansion paths for providers. Industry operators report that growth-minded agencies are pursuing organic growth, mergers and acquisitions, and joint ventures to scale operations despite enrollment restrictions. The moratorium affects provider capacity to enter new markets through new enrollments but does not prevent changes of ownership or partnerships with existing enrolled agencies. Providers are adapting expansion strategies to work within the temporary enrollment freeze.
Medicaid managed care organizations with delegated home health arrangements or value-based contracts may see changes in their home health network composition as providers consolidate or form joint ventures rather than launching new agencies during the enrollment moratorium.
Long-Term Care · Managed Care
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