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Congress, Medicare, and Home Health Agencies

The Senate Finance Committee has begun an investigation into four big home-health agencies that, it alleges, artificially inceased their home therapy visits to take advantage of higher Medicare billing rates. A May 12 letter from committee chairman Max Baucus (D-MT) and senior Republican Charles Grassley (R-IA) asked the four for-profit agencies--Amedisys, Almost Family Inc. Gentiva Health Services, and LHC Group-- for records and [...]

By |2010-05-17T09:23:34-04:00May 17th, 2010|Health reform, Medicare|0 Comments
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Medicare Rehab: You Don’t Need to be “Improving” to Get Help

You hear it all the time: "Medicare will only pay for rehab or personal care as long as you are getting better. If you are no longer improving after, say, a stroke, these benefits will stop." But according to the Center for Medicare Advocacy, a non-profit patient's rights group, this "improvement standard" may have become ingrained in the care system, but it [...]

By |2010-01-01T15:51:06-05:00January 1st, 2010|Medicare|0 Comments
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