Home Health Issue Brief - Statistical Trends and Published Articles with Studies and Research from 2002-2017

This is the ninth in a ten-part CMA Issue Brief Series examining the growing crisis in access to Medicare home health coverage and necessary care – and outlining the Center for Medicare Advocacy’s work to address these issues. We invite you to follow this Issue Brief Series and submit Medicare home health stories to the Center at http://www.medicareadvocacy.org/submit-your-home-health-access-story/.

CMA Issue Brief Series: Medicare Home Health Care Crisis

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1. Overview – The Crisis in Medicare Home Health Coverage and Access to Care
2. Medicare Home Health Coverage, Legally Defined
3. Medicare Coverage for Home Care Is Based On a Need For Skilled Care – Improvement Is Not Required
4. Misleading and Inaccurate CMS Medicare Home Health Publications
5. The Home Care Crisis: An Elder Justice Issue
6. Beneficiary Protections Expanded in Revised Home Health Conditions of Participation
7. Barriers to Home Care Created by CMS Payment, Quality Measurement, and Fraud Investigation Systems
8. Proposed CMS Rules and Systems Will Worsen the Home Care Crisis
9. Statistical Trends and Published Articles with Studies and Research from 2002-2017
10. Strategic Plans to Address and Resolve the Medicare Home Care Crisis

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Statistical Trends and Published Articles with Studies and Research from 2002-2017

The Center for Medicare Advocacy reviewed key articles, published between 2002 and 2017, that cite data and research and provide theories and conclusions about the evolution and current status of the Medicare home health benefit. This Issue Brief quotes or paraphrases these articles by topic and provides citations to articles referenced. The Brief concludes with a Center for Medicare Advocacy discussion of the impact this information has on Medicare beneficiary access to home health care.
Read the full Issue Brief at: http://www.medicareadvocacy.org/statistical-trends-and-published-articles-with-studies-and-research-from-2002-2017/