Home Health & Hospice Week

Industry Note:

New Study Blasts For-Profit Home Care Providers

The longstanding tension between for-profit and non-profit home care providers has been stepped up thanks to a recent study published in the August issue of the journal Health Affairs. For-profit home health agencies are far costlier for Medicare than nonprofit agencies, says the study conducted by researchers at the City Univer-sity of New York School of Public Health. The authors [...]
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