tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2004 Issue 5

Home Care: Some HHAs May Be Frozen Out Of Medicare

Increased managed care presence is bad news for home care industry.Home care providers are scrambling to assess the impact of the home care-specific provisions in the recently enacted Medicare law - but the changes with the biggest repercussions for the industry may have no mention of home care at all. The law introduced sweeping changes to the Medicare managed care program, noted attorney William Sarraille of Sidley Austin Brown & Wood in a Jan. 13 teleconference analyzing the impact of the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement and Modernization Act of 2003. Those changes are intended to increase significantly...

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