Home Health & Hospice Week

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U.S. President Wants Cuts To HHA Payments Next Year

Hospices generally get a pass in White House budget for 2014. As the opening salvo in this year’s federal budget negotiations, President Obama’s proposal released April 10 places some familiar threats on home health agencies’ horizon. As he did last year, the president proposes instituting copayments for home health episodes (see Eli’s HCW, Vol. XXII, No. 13). Under the blueprint, [...]
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