Home Health & Hospice Week

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CMS Overlooks Home Health Rural Add-On

Medicare officials miss another opportunity to improve care in remote areas. Medicare wouldn’t have to look far to get ideas for helping rural beneficiaries in the home health arena. They could just reinstate the home health rural add-on. In a recent blog post titled “Addressing Rural Health Inequities in Medicare,” the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services observes that “61 [...]
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