Industry Notes:
HH Spending Up Everywhere But Medicare
Published on Fri Dec 15, 2023
Medicare’s spending slowdown on home health is showing up in the program’s overall expenditure stats. “Spending for services provided by freestanding home health care agencies increased 6.0 percent in 2022 to $132.9 billion, accelerating from growth of 0.3 percent in 2021,” the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services says in a release about the figures. “Private health insurance, out-of-pocket, and [...]