Last week, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced a number of changes to Medicare home health payments for 2011 that reflect implementation of the Affordable Care Act (ACA). The proposed changes represent a 4.75 percent decrease in Medicare payments to home health agencies (HHAs) for calendar year 2011 which is approximately a […]
Category: Medicare & Medicaid
According to a new report by Deloitte’s Center for Health Solution, state governments’ obligation to their Long-Term Care (LTC) Medicaid enrollees may have the potential to debilitate government effectiveness and create severe fiscal distress. The report, "Medicaid Long-term Care: The Ticking Time Bomb," cites state budgetary pressures, the fact that Medicaid is the nation’s primary […]
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office on Disability recently announced the award of over $6 million under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, to establish a Center of Excellence in Research on Disability Services, Care Coordination and Integration. The contract was awarded to Mathematica Policy Research for a two-year period […]
Last week, U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Secretary (HHS) Kathleen Sebelius, Assistant Secretary for the Administration on Aging Kathy Greenlee and Maryiln Tavenner from Centers For Medicare & Medicaid (CMS) hosted a web chat to discuss the benefits of the new health reform law as it relates to America’s seniors. The 30 minute […]
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced that the Communities Putting Prevention to Work Chronic Disease Self-management Program, funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, will be distributing $27 million in grants to almost 40 states. The funds will allow states to provide self-management programs to older adults with […]
Late Sunday night, the U.S. House of Representatives passed both the Senate health reform bill (H.R. 3590) and Reconciliation Act of 2010 (H.R. 4872) that included provisions for the Community Living Assistance Services and Supports (CLASS) Act. The provisions in the bill would provide insurance solutions for a variety of Americans currently uninsured and would […]
The National Senior Citizens Law Center published a report in December entitled, “To be or not to be Homebound: The Limits of States’ Discretion in Medicaid’s Coverage for Home Health Services” that examines Medicaid’s coverage for home health services. The report looks at the home health benefit which has the unique status in the Medicaid […]
Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius recently announced the availability of $27 million to help older individuals with chronic conditions to improve their health and reduce their use of costly medical care.These funds are made possible through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, which has provided up to $650 million to HHS […]
A new Eljay LLC analysis of the nation’s Medicaid financing system projecting states will cumulatively under fund the actual cost of providing quality long term care by nearly $4.7 billion for 2009, and finds seniors in the states of New York, Illinois, Ohio, Texas, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Florida, California and Wisconsin will bear the […]
The Nattional Alliance for Caregiving released its annual report that profiles caregivers in the United States today to a similar report released five years ago. The study examined the prevalence of caregivers in the U.S.(29% of the U.S. adult population, or 65.7 million people), the caregiving situation in terms of the nature of caregiving activities, […]
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