Congress should protect access to home health care

Throughout the pandemic, Minnesota’s home health care agencies and clinicians have had to navigate a series of setbacks and challenges that have made it more difficult to meet the increased demand for in-home care. Those challenges, including rising labor and still-high fuel costs, as well as record inflation, have worsened an already notable workforce crisis within the home health community, leaving an increasing number of at-risk patients without care.

Now, even as the home health sector continues to struggle with these factors, proposed Medicare cuts are threatening to pull the rug out from under home health providers in Minnesota and throughout the country. The impact would be detrimental to the entire home health care community — especially the nearly 33,000 Medicare beneficiaries annually across Minnesota who depend on home health.

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