{"id":14647,"date":"2018-11-15T14:40:50","date_gmt":"2018-11-15T19:40:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.medicareadvocacy.org\/?p=14647"},"modified":"2021-08-10T16:15:02","modified_gmt":"2021-08-10T20:15:02","slug":"home-health-issue-brief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicareadvocacy.org\/home-health-issue-brief\/","title":{"rendered":"Home Health Issue Brief"},"content":{"rendered":"

Since 2017 the Center for Medicare Advocacy has been writing and disseminating a ten-part Home Health<\/em> Issue Brief Series<\/em> examining the growing crisis in access to Medicare-covered home health care, and outlining the Center’s work to address the issue. This Home Health Issue Brief<\/em> includes all ten prior Briefs<\/em> in one document. We hope this complete Brief<\/em> will help advocates and policy-makers access the relevant, often unknown, Medicare law, and related resource material, and assist them in efforts to resist inappropriate barriers to covered care.<\/p>\n

Download the complete Issue Brief<\/em> at https:\/\/www.medicareadvocacy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/HH-Issue-Brief-Full.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n

We invite you to send comments about the issues raised here and submit Medicare home health stories to the Center at https:\/\/www.medicareadvocacy.org\/submit-your-home-health-access-story\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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CMA Issue Brief Series: Medicare Home Health Care Crisis<\/strong><\/p>\n

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  1. Overview – The Crisis in Medicare Home Health Coverage and Access to Care<\/li>\n
  2. Medicare Home Health Coverage, Legally Defined<\/li>\n
  3. Medicare Coverage for Home Care Is Based On a Need For Skilled Care – Improvement Is Not Required<\/li>\n
  4. Misleading and Inaccurate CMS Medicare Home Health Publications<\/li>\n
  5. The Home Care Crisis: An Elder Justice Issue<\/li>\n
  6. Beneficiary Protections Expanded in Revised Home Health Conditions of Participation<\/li>\n
  7. Barriers to Home Care Created by CMS Payment, Quality Measurement, and Fraud Investigation Systems<\/li>\n
  8. Proposed CMS Rules and Systems Will Worsen the Home Care Crisis<\/li>\n
  9. Statistical Trends and Published Articles with Studies and Research from 2002-2017<\/li>\n
  10. Strategic Plans to Address and Resolve the Medicare Home Care Crisis<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
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