Healthcare providers and tech companies with a stake in home health have coalesced around bipartisan legislation introduced last week that would shift care away from the hospital to patients' living ...
One of the biggest areas of confusion about Medicare is whether, and when, it covers home care. Partly, that depends on the distinction between “home care” and “home health care.” But it’s also about ...
Medicare Advantage plans that place greater restrictions on home health agency care delivery may have more adverse patient outcomes than plans that provide episodic payments. Objectives: Medicare ...
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has tossed a plan to reduce home health reimbursements by $810 million next year and will give providers a 0.7% pay increase that amounts to $125 million ...
Hospital-at-home is attracting a new field of providers who say they can sustain the model despite uncertainty over how Medicare will reimburse for the service in the future. Home health agencies and ...
A Republican member of Congress has submitted a direct request to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to investigate home health fraud ...
Every senior who loses access to care in rural America is paying the price for criminals exploiting Medicare in Los Angeles. Los Angeles County now ...