CMS Program Enables More Home-Based Care for America’s Seniors
What The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is enhancing Medicaid funding to states that want to provide more home and community-based services for the elderly and disabled. The funding is authorized under an AffordableCare Act program called the Balancing Incentive Program. Who CMS recently announced that Missouri, Mississippi, Georgia and Iowa will be awarded federal…
REPORT: Cuts to Home Health Increase Long-Term Healthcare Costs
The Report Health & Medicine Policy Research Group’s Center for Long-Term Care Reform published a recently released a report titled “Medicaid Home Care Cuts: Analysis of Unintended and Unnecessary Consequences.” The report was issued in response to a proposed Illinois state budget that calls for $2.7 billion in cuts to the state Medicaid…
Final Rule: VA HBPC Eliminates Co-Payments for Tele-Health
Recognizing the home as a preferred place of care for veterans, the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs yesterday released a final ruling that eliminates patient co-payments for in-home video telehealth care through its Home Based Primary Care (HBPC) program (read the final rule here). VA first proposed the rule to eliminate co-pays in March…
VA Eliminates Copayment to Expand Home Health Access
The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) recently announced plans to remove copayment requirements for in-home video tele-health care in the hopes of making the home a preferred place of care, when medically appropriate for the patient. The Partnership applauds the decision to eliminate copayment requirements for in-home video tele-health care. With healthcare costs…
Medicare and Medicaid Fraud: a Targeted Problem in Need of a Targeted Solution
We recently had the opportunity to attend the Alliance for Health Reform briefing on healthcare fraud and prevention. It’s an important and timely topic for the home healthcare community. Our community recognizes that program integrity and payment reforms are needed to strengthen the Medicare and Medicaid programs and secure seniors’ access to quality healthcare services….
Program Integrity Reforms Work
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) recently released data that backs up the Partnership’s position that program integrity reforms in Medicare can result in serious healthcare savings. In 2009, the home healthcare community proposed a 10 percent cap on outlier payments to Medicare home healthcare providers. The proposed policy was included in…
Medicare Savings and Home Healthcare
There is a belief in government circles that a good way to trim the Medicare budget and, in so doing, help reduce federal deficits is to squeeze dollars out of support for home healthcare. That line of thinking could not be more wrong. That’s not merely an opinion. It’s supported by hard numbers. Home…
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