Last week, home health leaders representing the Council of State Home Care & Hospice Associations, National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC), Partnership for Quality Home Healthcare and eleven state home care associations visited Capitol Hill to advance bipartisan, bicameral Medicare home health legislation. Leaders had meetings with more than 40 lawmaker offices to…

As we prepare to feast with our family and friends this Thanksgiving, we are reminded that home is truly where the heart is. Thanksgiving is such a special time of year to express our gratitude for all the wonderful things in our lives. For many Americans, there is nothing more important than the choice to…

Earlier this year, Congress passed a billed called the Bipartisan Budget Act, which called for the development of a new home health payment system. Under the law, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is permitted to cut reimbursement rates to home health providers based solely on untested assumptions about provider behavior, rather than any…