Baby boomers look to reap greater benefits than from the Affordable Care Act than before, as the federal government initiates changes to the health care law in coming years, reports USA Today. As unemployment and rising health care costs have shrunk many retirement funds among many aging Americans, the recession looks to have impacted boomers […]
Category: Medicare
Medicare Administrative Contractors (MAC) prevented $275 million of improper payments to home health agencies, but they could do a much better job according to a report from the HHS Office of the Inspector General. “The four Zone Program Integrity Contractors we reviewed did not identify any HHA vulnerabilities and varied substantially in their efforts to detect […]
Medicare recipients with chronic conditions will now receive care under the program regardless whether or not their situations are likely to improve, according to an article from the Wall Street Journal. A legal settlement between the federal government and consumer advocate groups have paved the way for these Medicare patients to receive care both at […]
Health care spending in the United States exceeded the total reported in the National Health Expenditure Accounts (NHEA) in 2010 by $3.2 trillion, according to a report from the Deloitte Center for Health Solutions. A value that is 23.9% higher than what was reported by NHEA, the additional increase bears Deloitte’s report’s title, “The Hidden […]
Patient-centered medical homes (PCMH) while striving to improve patient outcomes, simultaneously seek to reduce health care costs, according to the New York Law Journal (NYLJ). Usually led by a physician, patients in a PCMH model have an ongoing relationship with their doctor and a team that is collectively responsible for patient care. A PCMH is […]
Though allowing Medicare beneficiaries to pay part of the costs of their home healthcare would give them “skin in the game” and alleviate program costs, co-payments could ultimately end up doing just the opposite, according to analysis by the Partnership for Quality Home Healthcare with Avalere Health. Having “skin in the game” is defined in […]
The demographic of the old, particularly the baby boomer generation, will play a key role in upcoming policy changes, notes an article from the New York Times. For decades, boomers’ retirement has been recognized as having monumental impacts on the economy. Contributing to the large-scale changes in the American population, aging boomers will carry more […]
The 2012 HomeCare Elite list was announced last week, ranking the top 100 and top 500 home health agencies in the nation. Gentiva Health Services, Amedisys Home Health, and Maxim Healthcare Services topped the list this year. Using publicly available data from Home Health Compare and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), OCS […]
As the nation stares down the looming fiscal cliff in upcoming weeks, the National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC) urges policymakers to reconsider Medicare cutbacks. Encroaching on Medicare’s spending, NAHC believes, would deny growing trends within the home health industry. Already enduring $77 billion in home health Medicare cuts since 2009, according to […]
The owner of a St. Louis home health care agency was sentenced to over two years in prison and ordered to pay $398,000 in restitution for false Medicare billing. Rose Ray-Vasser, 51, was sentenced Friday in U.S. District Court in St. Louis to 30 months in prison. Having pled guilty to fraud charges in September, […]
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