April is National Minority Health Month
From the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS): Many minorities experience a disproportionate burden of preventable disease, including diabetes, heart disease, kidney failure, and obesity....
View ArticleBrief Description of Medicare Home Health Coverage Under the Medicare Act...
This is Part Two of a Ten-Part CMA Issue Brief Series to examine, and inform work to resolve, the growing crisis in access to Medicare home health coverage and necessary care. We invite you to follow...
View ArticleMedicare Coverage for Home Care Is Based On a Need For Skilled Care –...
This is Part Three of a ten-part CMA Issue Brief Series examining the growing crisis in access to Medicare home health coverage and necessary care, and outlining the Center for Medicare Advocacy’s work...
View ArticleMedicare Home Health Care Crisis Part 4 – Misleading and Inaccurate CMS...
This is Part Four of a ten-part CMA Issue Brief Series examining the growing crisis in access to Medicare home health coverage and necessary care – and outlining the Center for Medicare Advocacy’s work...
View ArticleCMA Alert – Senate Health Bill, Again; Medicare Trustees Report; HH CoPs; More
Here We Go Again: Senate Health Repeal Bill Released Today, Vote Planned for Next Week Medicare Trustees Project Increase in Solvency Delay of New Medicare Home Health Conditions of Participation...
View ArticleThe Home Care Crisis: An Elder Justice Issue
This is Part Five of a ten-part CMA Issue Brief Series examining the growing crisis in access to Medicare home health coverage and necessary care – and outlining the Center for Medicare Advocacy’s work...
View ArticleCMA Alert – Critical Issue Roundup: MA Overpayment; HH Payment; Observation;...
Former CMS Administrator Comments on Medicare Advantage Overpayments Proposed Home Health Rules – Payments Drive Delivery of Care, Harming Beneficiaries Observation Status Harms Low-Income Medicare...
View ArticleCenter Comments on Proposed Home Health Payment Rules
September 25, 2017 Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Department of Health and Human Services Attention: CMS-1672-P P.O. Box 8016 Baltimore, Maryland 21244-8016 Submitted electronically to:...
View ArticleCMA Alert – Harmful Proposed Home Health Rules; Equitable Relief Ending Soon;...
Proposed Home Health Rules Harm the Most Vulnerable Beneficiaries We Called It: Continued Sabotage of the ACA “Equitable Relief” Ends this Week – Sign Up for Medicare Part B Proposed Home Health Rules...
View ArticleCMA Alert – Changes to Help QMBs; Home Health Updates; ACA Sabotage
CMS Changes Will Help Ensure Low Income Beneficiaries Are Not Illegally Billed CMS Reissues Improved Medicare Home Health Booklet Dispelling a Myth: Medicare Home Health Coverage is NOT a Short Term,...
View ArticleCMA Alert – It’s Enrollment Season; CMS Reissues HH Booklet; “Homebound” Case...
It's Health Care Enrollment Season NEW! CMS Again Reissues Improved Medicare Home Health Booklet THIS Week In ACA Sabotage… Happy Anniversary SSI Medicare "Homebound" Class Action Settled – Fairness...
View ArticleAlert – Spotlight on Medicare Home Health Care; Tax Cuts Set Stage for...
Medicare Home Health Coverage is Not a Short-Term, Acute Care Benefit ─ Congress Acted in 1980 to Provide for Longer-Term Coverage Final Home Health Rules and Interpretive Guidance: Proposed Payment...
View ArticleBeneficiary Protections Expanded in Revised Home Health Conditions of...
This is Part Six of a ten-part CMA Issue Brief Series examining the growing crisis in access to Medicare home health coverage and necessary care – and outlining the Center for Medicare Advocacy’s work...
View ArticleMedicare Home Health Access Problems Continue
As we have reported, the Center for Medicare Advocacy has been hearing from people unable to access Medicare-covered home health care, or the appropriate amount of care, despite meeting Medicare...
View ArticleBarriers to Home Care Created by CMS Payment, Quality Measurement, and Fraud...
This is Part Seven of a ten-part CMA Issue Brief Series examining the growing crisis in access to Medicare home health coverage and necessary care – and outlining the Center for Medicare Advocacy’s...
View ArticleTeam Gleason – Center for Medicare Advocacy Home Health Initiative
____ Team Gleason and the Center for Medicare Advocacy are pleased to announce a new initiative to help people living with ALS understand the Medicare home health benefit and maximize access to...
View ArticleToolkit: Medicare Home Health Coverage & Jimmo v. Sebelius
Jimmo v. Sebelius, No. 11-cv-17 (D. VT), is a nationwide class-action lawsuit brought on behalf of Medicare beneficiaries who received care in skilled nursing facilities, home health care, and...
View ArticleMedicare Home Health Highlight
Home health access problems have ebbed and flowed over the years, depending on the reigning payment mechanisms, systemic pressures, and misinformation about Medicare home health coverage. Regrettably,...
View ArticleMedicare Home Health Highlight
Home health access problems have ebbed and flowed over the years, depending on the reigning payment mechanisms, systemic pressures, and misinformation about Medicare home health coverage. Regrettably,...
View ArticleProposed CMS Payment Rules Will Worsen the Home Care Crisis
This is the eighth of a ten-part CMA Issue Brief Series examining the growing crisis in access to Medicare home health coverage and necessary care – and outlining the Center for Medicare Advocacy’s...
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