A ten-part CMA Issue Brief Series examining the growing crisis in access to Medicare home health coverage and necessary care – and outlining the Center for Medicare Advocacy’s work to address these issues.
- Overview: The Crisis in Medicare Home Health Coverage and Access to Care
- Brief Description of Medicare Home Health Coverage Under the Medicare Act
- Medicare Coverage for Home Care Is Based On a Need For Skilled Care – Improvement Is Not Required
- Misleading and Inaccurate CMS Medicare Home Health Publications
- The Home Care Crisis: An Elder Justice Issue
- Beneficiary Protections Expanded in Revised Home Health Conditions of Participation
- Barriers to Home Care Created by CMS Payment, Quality Measurement, and Fraud Investigation Systems
- Proposed CMS Payment Rules Will Worsen the Home Care Crisis
- Statistical Trends and Published Articles with Studies and Research from 2002-2017
- Plans to Address and Resolve the Medicare Home Care Crisis
Download the complete Issue Brief at:
https://www.medicareadvocacy.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/HH-Issue-Brief-Full.pdf