GET TO KNOW MEDICARE HOME HEALTH WITH MRS. ALICE

COST EFFECTIVE. CLINICALLY ADVANCED. PATIENT PREFERRED.

Find out how home healthcare is meeting seniors' needs and reducing America's healthcare costs.

Current Issues

Protect Home Health
from Severe Medicare Cuts

The Choose Home Care Act: A Bipartisan Bill to Allow America’s Seniors to Come Home Safely after Hospitalization

Supporting Care Delivery During the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency

NEWS

Home Health Stakeholders Call On CMS To Rectify ‘Significant’ Forecast Errors From 2021, 2022

Home health stakeholders are urging the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to address an alleged forecast error in the home health market basket…

READ MORE

As pandemic ends, other home care challenges await

No sooner does one problem end than another one begins. That’s the theme this week from McKnight’s Home Care. The big story Thursday, of course, was the…

READ MORE
BLOG

Home Health Leaders Offer Medicare Solution to Address Increased Labor Costs

May 15, 2023

Home health providers are experiencing significant Medicare reimbursement constraints, including reductions in fee-for-service payments, and increasing enrollments in Medicare Advantage, which provides comparatively low payments. While the annual Market Basket Adjustment is meant to keep pace with inflation, actual price inflation in the market has not been reflected in the forecasts of the market basket…

The Partnership Urges Congress to Act on the Workforce Shortage

April 5, 2023

The Partnership for Quality Home Healthcare recently submitted comments to the U.S. Senate HELP Committee, proposing solutions for the healthcare workforce shortages.  In the letter, the Partnership outlined the constraints home health providers experience in attracting and retaining home health nurses, therapists and other caregivers that are needed to ensure high quality care delivered through…

WATCH: Quality Home Health Services Allow Mrs. Alice to Recover at Home 

February 27, 2023

Before her stroke, Alice Mills was fully independent. She was driving, doing her own grocery shopping, and living in the apartment she had called home for twenty-two years. After her medical emergency, she spent three months in a skilled nursing facility. Ms. Alice has since returned to the home she loves, but her steep decline…

CHECK OUT HELPFUL RESOURCES PROVIDED BY THE PARTNERSHIP FOR QUALITY HOME HEALTHCARE