Home Health & Hospice Week

MedPAC may soon be calling the Medicare reimbursement shots. Change is in the air, but so far it's unclear whether health care reform will be good or bad for home health agencies and hospices. Right now, home care providers are doing everything they can to make sure the changes under consideration by Congress and President Obama are positive for the industry, their workers, and their patients. Lawmakers and big industry lobbyists are currently embroiled in battles over numerous health care reform points, including whether the reform plan will have a requirement for mandatory insurance and whether the government will offer a public insurance option. But many home care providers are more concerned about how they'll be treated by Medicare under the new system. Case in point: President Obama recently called for an additional $200 billion in Medicare cuts to help fund overall health care reform. That's in addition to the [...]