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ACA Designates $52 Million to Help Disabled and Veterans Avoid Nursing Homes
The creation of the new Administration for Community Living (ACL), brings together key HHS organizations and offices to increase access to community supports. The program is a partnership between HHS’...
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Supreme Court Rules Health Care Reform Law is Constitutional
The U.S. Supreme Court this morning ruled in a 5-4 decision that the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, President Barack Obama’s signature legislative accomplishment of his presidency, and the...
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Governor: Florida Won’t Comply with Health Care Law
TALLAHASSEE (AP) – Florida Gov. Rick Scott now says Florida will do nothing to comply with President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul and will not expand its Medicaid program. The announcement is a...
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HHS Secretary Sebelius to Gov. Scott: Don’t Roll Back Medicaid Eligibility
BY PHIL GALEWITZ KAISER HEALTH NEWS The nation’s top health official signaled Tuesday that states should not try to use the Supreme Court’s ruling on President Obama’s health care law to make it more...
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Obama Administration Announces Groundbreaking Public-Private Partnership to...
Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and Attorney General Eric Holder have announced the launch of a ground-breaking partnership among the federal government, state officials, several...
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Flashback to 2007: Obama Goes on a Home Care Visit
Back in 2007, then Senator Barack Obama spent a day with Pauline Beck, a home care worker, in the home of an elderly man. He worked alongside her, getting to know the daily life and concerns of a home...
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Home Care Workers Still Waiting for Promised Wage Increase, Overtime
By Tony Pugh, McClatchy News Service A sense of unease is building among advocates for nearly 2 million workers who help the elderly and disabled live independently in their homes. Because of a...
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An Interview with NAHC’s President on the Affordable Care Act
April Cashin-Garbutt sat down with Val Halamandaris, president of the National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC) to discuss the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and its impact on...
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Palm Beach County Woman Speaks for Medicare at DNC
By Andrew Abramson, The Palm Beach Post About 15 years ago, Carol Berman exhausted virtually all of her assets to pay for long-term care for her Alzheimers-inflicted husband. Finally faced with having...
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Obama Pledges: No Vouchers for Medicare
By Joyce Frieden, MedPage Today CHARLOTTE, N.C. – As it was on Tuesday and Wednesday, healthcare continued to be a central theme here as the Democratic Convention wrapped up on Thursday night, from the...
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ACOs Reduced Spending in Some Areas, Study Says
According to a new study, a precursor to the Accountable Care Organizations that policymakers are hoping will lower health costs and improve quality did reduce spending in some organizations, but not...
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Can Florida’s Medicaid Reform Plan Be the Model for the Nation?
By John Dorschner, The Miami Herald Quietly, over the past six years, an experiment in providing healthcare for the poor has been playing out in Broward and four other counties around the state. Its...
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POLITICO: Simpson-Bowles Make Their Comeback
Commission called for 20 percent copay for Medicare-funded home health services, which amounts to $600 per episode By Jake Sherman, POLITICO Simpson and Bowles are having another national moment....
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Congress Calling on CMS to Impose Temporary, Targeted Moratorium
Florida congressman joins call for moratorium In light of ongoing reports of Medicare home health care fraud across the nation – including yesterday’s news that indictments were filed in Miami in a...
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How Will the Election Change Medicaid?
The future of Medicaid – the state-federal workhorse of the nation’s health system that provides health coverage to the poorest and sickest Americans – hangs in the balance on Election Day. President...
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Nearly a Million Floridians Could Gain Health Insurance Without the State Paying
By Laura Green, The Palm Beach Post WASHINGTON — Close to one million Floridians could gain access to health insurance without the state chipping in a penny, if state leaders agree to expand Medicaid...
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Home Health Aides: In Demand, Yet Paid Little
By Jennifer Ludden, National Public Radio The home care workforce — some 2.5 million strong — is one of the nation’s fastest growing yet also worst paid. Turnover is high, and with a potential labor...
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Settlement Eases Rules Regarding Medicare Home Health Patients
By Robert Pear, The New York Times WASHINGTON — Tens of thousands of people with chronic conditions and disabilities may find it easier to qualify for Medicare coverage of potentially costly home...
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Florida Moving to Work on Implementing Health Care Law
By Stacey Singer, The Palm Beach Post The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled, President Barack Obama has won re-election and a majority of Florida voters rejected Amendment 1, the effort to etch into the...
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Progressive Group Recommends $385 Billion in Health Cuts
By Phil Galewitz, Kaiser Health News Hospitals, drug companies, nursing homes and health plans would lose billions in Medicare funding over the next decade under a budget deficit cutting plan...
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