Monday, June 1, 2015
Despite the overwhelming preference among older Americans to age in place, new research shows that even the wealthy aren’t prepared for the costs of home health care. (Emily Study/Home Health Care News)
Insurers are livid that the federal government may tell them how to spend their revenue. The Obama administration released a proposed rule Tuesday for the Medicaid managed care program, which enables Medicaid recipients to get a private health plan subsidized by the state they live in. Regulations governing Medicaid managed care have not been updated since 2003. (Robert King/Washington Examiner)
A criminal conviction can have wide-ranging effects on a person’s ability to get a job, among other things. And for home health care workers, criminal records can have an adverse and arguably unjustifiable long-term impact when it comes to holding down a position. (Jason Oliva/Home Health Care News)
A small cadre of doctors and individual medical providers are consistently the biggest recipients of Medicare dollars, new government data show. The top 1% of billers of the federal program in 2013 reaped 17.5% of all payments to individual providers that year. That same cluster of doctors and other individual providers received 16.6% of the program’s payments in 2012. (Christopher Weaver, Rob Barry, Christopher S. Stewart/The Wall Street Journal)
The final rule for Medicare Shared Savings Program ACOs, released yesterday by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, includes changes that are a step in the right direction for the hospital field, but the rule could've gone further to attract hospital participation. (Paul Barr/H&HN)
