Medicare Home Health Initative: Current Activities and Future Directions
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This article describes the Medicare home health benefit and summarizes the growth and change in the use of the benefit and in the industry providing home health care. The article details the progress the Home Health Initiative has achieved in the key areas of quality assurance, administration and operations, and policy. It concludes with a discussion of future directions for reforming Medicare's home health benefit.
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