NEWS RELEASE: National Home Health Leaders Host Policy Summit in DC to Advocate forPolicies to Protect Medicare Home Health Benefit
September 11, 2017With policy changes on the horizon that could significantly harm Medicare’s home health benefit through significant payment cuts, nearly 150 representatives from home health, hospice and homecare agencies across the country gathered in Washington today to ask lawmakers to support efforts to protect the approximately 3.5 million Medicare beneficiaries who depend on home health.
Why Seniors are Hesitant to Embrace Home Care
March 1, 2017Home care should be an attractive solution for seniors who want to age in place-—but, all too often, that’s not the case.
HomeHero Closure Casts Shadow Over Home Care ‘Disrupters’
March 1, 2017Millions of dollars in backing from seasoned venture funds and investors. Technology built to improve efficiencies and lower costs. And plenty of ambition.
Senators Ask for Halt to Pre-Claim Before Florida Start Date
February 28, 2017Lawmakers in Florida have teamed up to ask Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Tom Price to delay the implementation of the Pre-Claim Review Demonstration (PCRD) in the state.
Federal prosecution and fines didn’t stop pain-pill prescribing
June 6, 2016A January report to Virginia’s House of Delegates said the state’s Medicaid program spent $26 million on opioid use and misuse in 2013 and at least 40,000 adults in Virginia’s Medicaid program have a substance abuse disorder.
Gov. Pat McCrory signs waiver request to feds for Medicaid changes
June 6, 2016Hours before submitting a waiver request to the federal government, North Carolina on Wednesday unveiled its finalized Medicaid overhaul proposal to lawmakers, with key provisions including privatizing the majority of services.
Couple sentenced to prison in $80 million Medicaid fraud in nation’s capital
June 6, 2016A federal judge on Wednesday sentenced a Bowie, Md., wife and husband to 10 and seven years in prison, respectively, for orchestrating a multiyear campaign to defraud D.C. Medicaid of more than $80 million between 2009 and 2014, the largest local health-care fraud scheme ever prosecuted in the city.
Partnership for Medicaid Home-Based Care Announces Additional Founding Members and Board of Directors
December 8, 2015The Partnership for Medicaid Home-Based Care (Medicaid Partnership), a group of national homecare provider organizations formed to advance the integrity and delivery of high-quality, cost-effective Medicaid home-based care through proactive and constructive engagement with government leaders and across the Medicaid homebased care stakeholder community, is pleased to announce that All Metro and Centene have joined as Founding Members of the Medicaid Partnership.
Council of State Home Care Associations Praises U.S. House Lawmakers forAsking CMS to Stop Proposed Home Health Cuts
September 24, 2015The Council of State Home Care Associations – an organization of the associations representing homecare and hospice provider communities across the United States – today praised 133 bipartisan members of the U.S. House of Representatives for signing a letter to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) asking the agency to revise proposed changes to the Medicare home health benefit, which would cut an additional $350 million in funding from the program in 2016.
Partnership for Medicaid Home-Based Care Forms to Protect the Delivery of Home-Based Care Services to America’s Medicaid Beneficiaries
September 24, 2015WASHINGTON, Sept. 23, 2015 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ – A group of national home care provider organizations has formed a new coalition – the Partnership for Medicaid Home-Based Care (Medicaid Partnership) – to advance the integrity and delivery of high-quality, cost-effective Medicaid home-based care through proactive and constructive engagement with government leaders and across the Medicaid home-based care stakeholder community.