Health care spending for seniors grew at the slowest rate compared to other age groups between 2002 and 2010, according to a new actuarial report from the Centers for Medicaid & Medicare Services. The average annual growth in per-person personal health care spending for seniors was 4.1% during that eight-year time frame—the lowest among any […]
Category: Medicaid
A U.S. Senator has spearheaded a sign-on letter asking the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to postpone plans to expand the competitive bidding program for home medical equipment. Senator John Hoeven (R-N.D.) launched the effort in response to a recent announcement that competitive bidding will be expanded nationwide by 2016 beyond the 100 areas […]
A new wage rule passed under the Obama administration that promises to increase pay and working conditions for home care workers could result in higher Medicaid costs, reports USA Today via Stateline, a nonpartisan news service. The new rule, slated to go into effect come January 1, has been met with mixed response among home […]
A growing group of professionals with ties to the home care and medical equipment industries are uniting in their opposition to a proposal from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to expand its competitive bidding program to new areas. From clinicians and advocates for Medicare beneficiaries to home medical equipment providers, manufacturers, and […]
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) will finally begin implementing its long-heralded fingerprint-based background checks for home health providers. As part of enhanced enrollment screening provisions contained in the Affordable Care Act, CMS announced it is beginning to phase in the implementation of fingerprinting background checks—an initiative three years in the making. The […]
Kathleen Sebelius recently announced her resignation as secretary of the Department of Health & Human Services following the end of open enrollment for—and botched rollout of—the health insurance exchanges created under the Affordable Care Act. On April 11, President Barack Obama nominated Sylvia Mathews Burwell to take over the position. Burwell is the current director of […]
Smaller home health and hospice providers will struggle to survive in the face of new policies and proposals that could deeply impact both industries, says Healthcare Market Resources in a market research letter that points to growth as a solution. The home health and hospice industries are threatened by several policy efforts underway or in […]
Following a public commenting period from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) on Round 2 of its Competitive Bidding program for home medical equipment (HME), a recent survey shows a majority of HME providers generally reject the program’s “one-size-fits-all” approach. In efforts to simplify the submitting of public comment, VGM Group, Inc. created […]
On the heels of recent home health care-related fraud developments sprouting up nationwide, a new $5.8 million Medicare scheme has landed a prison sentence for an office manager of a Detroit-area home care agency. Nabila Mahbub, 28, was sentenced Wednesday by a federal judge in the Eastern District of Michigan to serve 46 months in […]
Recent Medicaid home health fraud developments have been centralized to three specific states in the last few weeks, according to The National Council on Medicaid Home Care (NCMHC). An affiliate of the National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC), the National Council on Medicaid Home Care finds various home health fraud incidents occurring in […]
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