Medicare is now in its third year of testing their “Independent at Home” project, which was created by the Affordable Care Act. This program provides Medicare’s frailest senior citizen patients, who all suffer from multiple chronic conditions, with house calls by healthcare professionals.
These are Medicare’s most expensive type of patient, because they are often…
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has announced that there will be reductions in funding for hospitals who provide care for many low income patients, and for hospitals with too many patients who develop infections while in the hospital. In addition, there will be higher penalties assessed for those hospitals with readmissions within 30…
Many older patients, who are on Medicare or in a Medicare Advantage Plan, are shocked when they are hospitalized for less than 3 days only to find out that Medicare will not pay for nursing home coverage following this brief hospitalization. These patients, who are technically admitted for “observation” for less than 3 full days,…
