Posted on 12/12/2013 10:37:30 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Starting Jan. 1, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) will begin slashing 14 percent of their Home Health Care Prospective Payment Program budget, driving small home health-care providers out of business and potentially affecting millions of poor, elderly citizens in need of physical rehabilitation.
The cuts — which are being made to fund Obamacare — will slash the homecare budget 3.5 percent every year for the next four.
“By CMS’s own calculation, 40 percent or nearly 5,000 home health companies — mainly small businesses — will experience a “net loss” in revenue due to the cuts and go into the red by 2017,” The Washington Examiner reports. “That will put many of them out of business.”
The cuts to Medicare are part of approximately $716 billion Obamacare takes from the program between now and 2022.
While CMS was allowed to choose where to make the cuts, the centers opted to ”impose a maximum 3.5 percent cut each year through 2017 to reach the 14-percent reduction,” The Examiner reports....
(Excerpt) Read more at dailycaller.com ...
Not surprising. Back about 10 to 15 years ago the UK NHS was telling the elderly to go home and die.
ZEROCARE.
Democrats got what they wanted. Communism.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-12-12/south-carolina-about-pass-bill-nullify-obamacare
Also the Medicare “doc fix” comes due in January. About $30 billion- or a 24% cut in doctor’s payments.
“Those mean Republicans! Why won’t they fund Obamacare enough?”
Uh, because it’s impossible...
I wonder how many people are going to die because of this evil plan?
Cutting Home care, will drive up Hospital visits and Nursing home stays.
Home care is the cheapest alternative. They should expand the program not cut it.
Cutting Home care, will drive up Hospital visits and Nursing home stays.
Home care is the cheapest alternative. They should expand the program not cut it.
The home health care industry saves hospitals an amazing amount of money. Think about that. It allows Medicare patients to be discharged sooner, because they can receive assistance at home.
So this bastard and his team of destroyers comes along and cuts the home health care reimbursements.
All that is going to do is cause an uptick in the costs of care in hospitals. Unable to send people home who can’t get care there, the hospitals will have to extend days to these people’s stays.
There FIXED! /s
This is complete bull s—t!
That is probably the point.
Again, like the Doctors being forced out of private practice into hospitals, putting the small businesses out of homecare makes it easier for the transition into single payer.
Probably. I know a woman in her 80s who voted for Obama. The last time I saw her, she was seemingly unaffected by what has been happening all around us. Some people never learn, regardless of age and experience.
Opinion
Scott Gottlieb: This ‘Doc Fix’ Would Be Bad for Your Health
An attempt to alter Medicare may let Washington dictate how doctors treat patients.
By
Scott Gottlieb
Dec. 11, 2013 7:08 p.m. ET
Imagine if a provision in ObamaCare allowed Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius to dictate directly to doctors which services they could and could not provide their patients—what individual tests they could conduct, which treatments they could offer, and medicines they could prescribe.
Americans would be outraged.
Yet some Republicans on Capitol Hill are about to help Democrats pass such a provision for Medicare patients. The Senate Finance Committee is set to vote on permanent “doc-fix” legislation Thursday that grants the federal government broad new authority to determine “applicable appropriate use criteria” for the full range of outpatient medical services delivered to seniors. Similar legislative language is included in bipartisan draft legislation that is being marked up Thursday in the HouseWays and Means Committee.
The bill is part of a larger effort to change the way Medicare pays doctors. Each year since 2002, Congress has passed temporary “doc-fix” legislation to cover billions of dollars of shortfalls in Medicare payments. The provisions in the bill apply to advanced radiology imaging tools like CT scans and MRIs. But language tucked into the legislation enables “the Secretary” of HHS to exert the same controls over the vast array of outpatient medical care for seniors.
http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702303293604579251951156481492
Exactly. And Obamacare then penalizes the hospital for readmitting these patients who are chronically ill. So both entities go out of business. Then you have an ID card saying you have insurance but nowhere to go for actual health care. Perfectly planned to rid the nation of undesirables.
There’s nothing sadder than an elderly fool :(
Oh great, I already lost one homecare job in Feb, along with the insurance and other benefits that go with it. Now it looks like I may end up losing the PART TIME, NO BENEFITS job at another homecare agency that I felt blessed to be able to get!!
The rehospitalization penalty will begin for homecare agencies on Jan 1st to my understanding, so when they go down, they will go fast, IMO.
Very true, unfortunately.
Some people have to get bit in the ass before they realize the dog bites.
A lady I know in Arkansas barely makes a living doing homecare. If she looses that work will she be counted as unemployed?
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