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New Trump Order Seeks Rate Equality Between Advantage Plans, Fee-for-Service Medicare
President Donald Trump signed a new executive order Thursday designed to bolster and expand Medicare Advantage (MA), the private Medicare...
Home Health & SNF Should Lean on Each Other
Despite the competition that often exists between home health care agencies and skilled nursing facilities (SNFs), the industries have...
CMS Releases Proposed 2020 Home Health Rules
Statement of NAHC President William A. Dombi Regarding the Medicare Home Health Proposed Rule CMS late today issued the proposed rule for...
Texas Association for Home Care & Hospice is fighting for our Patients!
Dear Open Forum: The conference committee just wrapped up a very long and hard fought session to resolve the differences in the two...
Changes to Physician Certification?
A bipartisan group of U.S. lawmakers has begun planting the seeds to eliminate Medicare’s physician-certification policy — which many...
Chronic Conditions Cost US More than 4.5 Trillion
The overall economic burden associated with diabetes, heart disease, dementia and other chronic medical conditions in the United States...
Medicare Advantage Plans Adding Home Care Benefit in 2020
Medicare Advantage Plans May Provide Additional Supplemental Benefits in 2020 On April 27, 2018, the Medicare Drug and Health Plan...
Trump Calls for Medicaid Overhaul
The Trump administration on Monday released its proposed budget for fiscal year 2020, calling for government-wide domestic spending cuts...
CMS Makes Changes to ACO's and Telehealth
CMS has released new rules overhauling Medicare’s accountable care organizations (ACO) program. Called “Pathways to Success,” the new...
