Download or read book Medicare home health payments to most freestanding home health agencies more than covered their costs written by and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Medicare Home Health written by United States Government Accountability Office and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-10-20 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Medicare Home Health: Payments to Most Freestanding Home Health Agencies More Than Cover Their Costs
Download or read book Medicare Home Health written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Medicare Home Health written by United States. General Accounting Office and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Gao 04 359 Medicare Home Health written by United States Government Accountability Office and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-01-28 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: GAO-04-359 Medicare Home Health: Payments to Most Freestanding Home Health Agencies More Than Cover Their Costs
Download or read book Medicare written by and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Medicare Home Health Care written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Simulations of a Medicare Prospective Payment System for Home Health Care written by and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Medicare Home Health Benefit written by Viktor Persson and published by Nova Science Publishers. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Medicare home health benefit provides coverage for home visits by skilled health care professionals. To be eligible for the home health benefit, a beneficiary must meet three different criteria. The beneficiary must (1) be homebound, (2) require intermittent skilled nursing care and/or skilled rehabilitation services, and (3) be under the care of a physician who has established that the home health visits are medically necessary in a 60-day plan of care. A beneficiary who meets these requirements is entitled to a 60-day episode of Medicare coverage for home health visits, and is then entitled to an unlimited number of 60-day episodes so long as he or she continues to meet the eligibility requirements. There is no cost-sharing requirement for home health services. Roughly 9.6% of Medicare fee-for-service (FFS) beneficiaries (or 3.4 million individuals) used home health services in 2010. Home health services are provided through home health agencies (HHAs), most of which (90%) are freestanding -- HHAs not affiliated with an institution such as a hospital or a nursing facility. The number of HHAs participating in Medicare grew by 57% between 2000 and 2010 (from 7,528 to roughly 11,800), with a vast majority of the increase in for-profit freestanding HHAs. This book describes home health eligibility criteria, home health services, characteristics of Medicare beneficiaries who use home health services, and home health providers. Further, this book describes in detail the Medicare home health prospective payment system (HH PPS), provides an overview of Medicare home health payments, and discusses issues for Congress related to the Medicare home health benefit.
Download or read book Issues Related to Medicare Payment Policies for Home Health Agency and Skilled Nursing Facility Services written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means. Subcommittee on Health and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Medicare Home Health Care written by United States Accounting Office (GAO) and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-05-29 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Medicare Home Health Care: Payments to Home Health Agencies Are Considerably Higher than Costs
Download or read book MEDICARE HOME HEALTH CARE Payments to Home Health Agencies Are Considerably Higher Than Costs written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In response to rapidly rising home health spending from the late 1980s through the mid-1990s, the Congress enacted major changes to Medicare s home health payments in the Balanced Budget Act of 1997 (BBA).1 These and subsequent changes culminated in the implementation of a prospective payment system (PPS) on October 1, 2000, which provides incentives to home health agencies (HHAs) to operate efficiently. Under the PPS, HHAs are paid a fixed amount, adjusted for a beneficiary's care needs, for providing up to 60 days of care, termed a home health episode. The BBA also created an interim payment system (IPS) that imposed new payment limits to moderate spending until the PPS could be implemented. The PPS was designed to lower Medicare spending below what it was under the IPS. This spending reduction was to be achieved by setting the PPS episode payment amount so that total home health spending under the PPS in fiscal year 2000 would equal what would have been spent had the interim limits been reduced by 15 percent. Subsequent legislation delayed implementation of the mandated reduction to the episode payment amount until October 2002.2 The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)3 has determined that the fiscal year 2003 episode payment rate would have to be reduced by about 7 percent to achieve the mandated level of savings.
Download or read book Medicare Home Health Care Skilled Nursing Facility and Other Postacute Care Payment Policies written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means. Subcommittee on Health and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Improving the Quality of Long Term Care written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2001-02-27 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Among the issues confronting America is long-term care for frail, older persons and others with chronic conditions and functional limitations that limit their ability to care for themselves. Improving the Quality of Long-Term Care takes a comprehensive look at the quality of care and quality of life in long-term care, including nursing homes, home health agencies, residential care facilities, family members and a variety of others. This book describes the current state of long-term care, identifying problem areas and offering recommendations for federal and state policymakers. Who uses long-term care? How have the characteristics of this population changed over time? What paths do people follow in long term care? The committee provides the latest information on these and other key questions. This book explores strengths and limitations of available data and research literature especially for settings other than nursing homes, on methods to measure, oversee, and improve the quality of long-term care. The committee makes recommendations on setting and enforcing standards of care, strengthening the caregiving workforce, reimbursement issues, and expanding the knowledge base to guide organizational and individual caregivers in improving the quality of care.
Download or read book Medicare Home Health Care written by William J. Scanlon and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2000-10 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Medicare spending for home health care rose from $3.7 billion in 1990 to $17.8 billion in 1997, making it one of the fastest growing components of the program. To control spending, Congress passed an act which required HHS to develop a prospective payment system to replace cost-based payments for home health agencies. This report: documents the objectives, findings, & costs of the research & demonstration projects the Health Care Finance Admin. has funded that were related to the design of the prospective payment system; & assesses how these projects contributed to the proposed prospective payment system design & determines which design decisions were based on incomplete information. Charts & tables.
Download or read book Medicare Use of Home Health Services written by United States. Health Care Financing Administration. Office of Research, Demonstrations, and Statistics and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Medicare home health care prospective payment system could reverse recent declines in spending report to the Chairman Subcommittee on Health Committee on Ways and Means House of Representatives written by and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
