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CMA Issue Brief Series: Medicare Home Health Care Crisis

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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 April 19, 2017
  • Brief Description of Medicare Home Health Coverage Under the Medicare Act May 3, 2017
  • Medicare Coverage for Home Care Is Based On a Need For Skilled Care – Improvement Is Not Required May 31, 2017
  • Misleading and Inaccurate CMS Medicare Home Health Publications June 21, 2017
  • The Home Care Crisis: An Elder Justice Issue August 2, 2017
  • Beneficiary Protections Expanded in Revised Home Health Conditions of Participation January 3, 2018
  • Barriers to Home Care Created by CMS Payment, Quality Measurement, and Fraud Investigation Systems February 7, 2018
  • Proposed CMS Payment Rules Will Worsen the Home Care Crisis March 15, 2018
  • Statistical Trends and Published Articles with Studies and Research from 2002-2017 August 23, 2018
  • Plans to Address and Resolve the Medicare Home Care Crisis October 18, 2018

Download the complete Issue Brief at:
https://www.medicareadvocacy.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/HH-Issue-Brief-Full.pdf


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