Home Health & Hospice Week

Industry Note:

MA Plans Must Cover Maintenance Services, Too

A new Medicare website about the Jimmo settlement may lend some backup to your maintenance nursing and therapy services. The Jimmo Settlement Agreement from January 2013 “clarified that the Medicare program covers skilled nursing care and skilled therapy services under Medicare’s skilled nursing facility, home health, and outpatient therapy benefits when a beneficiary needs skilled care in order to maintain [...]
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