by Liz Seegert In front of nearly all 900 attendees, Senator Harry Reid (D-NV) praised home healthcare as a viable solution to the country’s out of control health spending during a keynote address at last week’s NAHC Annual Meeting in National Harbor, MD. “What you do cuts costs,” Reid told the audience. “Hospitals or […]
The National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC) is urgently requesting input from every provider agency regarding the potential impact of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) requirement that certain employers pay a penalty when they do not provide a qualified health plan to employees. NAHC’s efforts to alert the home […]
by H. Carol Saul Almost fifteen years ago, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) adopted a final rule requiring home health agencies (HHAs) to post surety bonds in the amount of $50,000, or 15% of the annual amount received from Medicare, whichever was greater. That regulation quickly faced opposition by Congress and by […]
