Home-based care executives are increasingly turning to alternative reimbursement models developed by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services ...
For almost 40 years, workers and their supporters lobbied to change the rule, seeing it as a contributor to the low wages and meager benefits of a swiftly growing work force, one made up primarily of ...
Executives who donated to the president’s super PAC met privately with him and urged a repeal of the rule, which was intended ...
After several months of home health dealmaking uncertainty sparked by the largest-ever proposed cut to Medicare home health ...
Original Medicare pays the complete cost of home health care services for beneficiaries enrolled in both Part A and Part B. You pay no deductible or coinsurance for home health care with Original ...
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 ...
A smiling physical therapist assists an older adult using a walker in a bright bedroom, illustrating how Astir Home ...
The entire CDPAP workforce and the broader community of home care providers have been unfairly castigated. Lawmakers must ...
Angela Haupt has been a health writer and editor for more than a decade. She was previously the managing editor of health at U.S. News & World Report, where she spent 11 years covering and editing ...
To qualify for home healthcare under Medicare, you’ll need to show that you are “homebound” due to illness and injury via a doctor’s examination and recommendation. However, you’ll first need to be ...
A rapidly aging population is colliding with a shrinking home health workforce, raising fears that thousands of seniors may struggle to safely age at home as agencies face staffing shortages.
Home health care at nonprofit Northwest Colorado Health started in 1964, and today the continuing service predominately ...