Improving Access to Medicare Home Health Care: Key Policy Considerations
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Description
Highlights themes from interviews with 20 policy experts on home health agencies to identify factors contributing to declines in use of Medicare home health services. Discusses payment models, Medicare Advantage, workforce shortages, and family caregivers. Offers policy measures that may increase home health utilization.
Author(s)
Barbara Lyons, Jane Andrews
Date
07/2026
Tagged as
Access
· Health workforce supply and demand
· Home health
· Informal caregivers
· Medicare
· Policy
· Reimbursement and payment models