133 Bipartisan Lawmakers Agree: We Must Save Home Health
133 Members of the U.S. House of Representatives recently expressed their deep concern with proposed Medicare home health funding cuts in a letter to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Acting Administrator Andy Slavitt. In June, CMS released the Home Health Prospective Payment System (HHPPS) proposed rule for 2016, in which…
Home Health Care Services are at Risk for Rural America
Funding cuts made to Medicare home health in recent years are hurting home health providers and their patients across the country, particularly those operating in rural areas. Powell Valley Home Care and Hospice (PVHC) has offered home health and hospice services in northwest Wyoming since 1989, but the company recently announced plans to permanently…
Our New Year’s Resolution: Protect America’s Seniors
With a new year comes a new opportunity to improve the integrity, quality, and efficiency of home health for our nation’s seniors. As Congress returns to work, we urge our nation’s lawmakers to continue protecting patients through support of the Securing Access Via Excellence (SAVE) Medicare Home Health Act. Introduced last year (as H.R….
Looking Forward to Election Day: America’s Most Active Voting Block
With Election Day just a few hours away, policymakers and thought leaders must take note of America’s most active and politically aware voting block: senior citizens. Senior citizens play a clear, and absolutely critical role in future direction of America. And their ballots will directly impact the defining policy decisions of the next decade….
Save Home Health Rallies Show Support for the SAVE Medicare Home Health Act
We would like to thank Senator Mitch McConnell and Congressman David McKinley for their support of home healthcare and the SAVE Medicare Home Health Act. During the recent Save Home Health rallies in Kentucky and West Virginia, Senator McConnell and Congressman McKinley spoke out about the unprecedented 14% Medicare cuts to home healthcare and…
Happy Citizenship Day
September 17 is Constitution Day and Citizenship Day, commemorating the signing of the United States Constitution 227 years ago today. Being a citizen of the United States comes with many rights – and none is more important than our right to vote. Voting is an easy task for many Americans, but it can…
Report: New Data Show Home-Based Care Saves Medicare Money
A study conducted by MedStar Washington Hospital Center found that home-based primary care incurred 17 percent lower overall Medicare costs over a course of two years. The report published in the Journal of American Geriatrics Society found patients who received home-based care had: 10 percent fewer ER visits, 9 percent fewer…
Lawmakers, Media, and Community Leaders Agree: We Must Save Home Health!
On July 15, Representatives Greg Walden (OR-2) and Tom Price (GA-6) introduced the Securing Access Via Excellence (SAVE) Medicare Home Health Act to protect America’s seniors. 
 This bill replaces the unprecedented Medicare rebasing cuts with payment reform to achieve savings by improving care for Medicare beneficiaries and reducing avoidable spending on preventable hospital readmissions….
Home Health Sector Sees the Largest Job Loss in More than a Decade
The December Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) jobs report projects that 3,700 home health jobs were lost in December, demonstrating the biggest loss in home health jobs in more than a decade. Leaders in the home health community have warned these cuts are directly related to the unprecedented 14 percent cut to the Medicare…