While home health is often discussed as a post-acute Medicare benefit, nearly half of patients are admitted through the community rather than after a ...

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Sometimes, a person may need intermittent or temporary home healthcare, such as after a hospital stay when they still require a certain amount of care. Medicare Part A covers home healthcare after ...

Medicare Advantage plans that place greater restrictions on home health agency care delivery may have more adverse patient outcomes than plans that provide episodic payments. Objectives: Medicare ...

A proposed Medicare rate cut that threatens home-healthcare services for seniors and disabled people may be halted under a bipartisan bill. The bill, called the Home Health Stabilization Act of 2025, ...

Aging seniors and those with chronic conditions have been able to rely on Medicare for home health care. Now, the benefit may be at risk for millions of Americans, writes Debbie Stabenow, the former ...

Six Republican members of the U.S. House of Representatives have written a letter to the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) Office of ...

Medicare doesn’t cover nonmedical long-term care. This is why purchasing a policy to help with a long-term need becomes ...

Original Medicare doesn’t typically cover adult day care, but some Medicare Advantage plans may have additional benefits, including adult day care services. Adult day care offers older adults and ...

The home-healthcare industry, which boasts rich profit margins, doesn't want the rate cuts About 2.7 million traditional Medicare beneficiaries received home healthcare in 2023, and the program spent ...