The U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ (CMS) has earmarked $50 billion to improve health care offerings in rural communities – and home ...

Researchers worry that Medicaid home care eligibility decisions are often made without public scrutiny and based less on ...

Benefits that allowed millions of Medicare recipients access to telehealth and in-home acute care expired on Sept. 30.

Rural Oklahoma is suffering a crisis in access to quality health care. State consistently ranks high for diabetes, heart ...

This is evident in Idaho, where 37% of patients referred to home health care after hospitalization did not receive it last ...

Despite increasing Medicare Advantage (MA) enrollment growth, the plans offering in-home support services decreased between ...

Sometimes, you may need intermittent or temporary home healthcare, such as after a hospital stay when you still require a certain amount of care. Medicare Part A can cover home healthcare after ...

Medicaid managed care plans and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) will be subject to new wait time standards and quality ratings requirements, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services ...

The White House has finalized a policy mandating home care providers spend at least 80% of Medicaid payments on direct care workers. The mandate is outlined in CMS’ Ensuring Access to Medicaid ...

The government shutdown has ended funding for a Medicare program that allows hospitals to provide inpatient-level care to ...

One of the biggest areas of confusion about Medicare is whether, and when, it covers home care. Partly, that depends on the distinction between “home care” and “home health care.” But it’s also about ...

It’s time for CMS to get its priorities straight and protect the Medicare home health benefit for millions of American ...