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Healthcare Reform Update
April 1, 2010
The Kaiser Family Foundation offers a timely Side-by-Side Comparison of the major health care reform proposals. Use their interactive tools to understand the complex legislation.
The non-profit National Council on Aging provides a short summary, Straight Talk for Seniors on Health Reform, on their website.
The National Association for Home Care & Hospice notes that the legislation, according to the Congressional Budget Office's (CBO) estimates, will reduce the number of uninsured Americans by some 32 million. It also begins a ground-up transformation from an acute care-based, institutionally oriented health system to one that focuses on disease prevention and home and community-based care, the latter primarily through the bill's inclusion of a program called the Community Living Assistance Services and Supports (CLASS) Act and significant expansions of Medicaid (NAHC Report, 3/3010).
The Home Health Care electronic newsletter encourages professionals to take some time to review the following sections of the new law that will have a direct impact on home health care and hospice:
- Section 2402 - Removal of barriers to providing home and community-based services
- Section 3131 - Payment adjustments for home health
- Section 3132 - Hospice reform
- Section 3143 - Protecting home health benefits
- Section 3502 - Establishing community health teams to support the patient centered medical home
- Section 3503 - Medication management of chronic diseases
- Section 6407 - Face-to-face encounter with patient required before physicians may certify eligibility for home health services or durable medical equipment under medicare
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