Home Health Care News December 21, 2022
Almost half of Medicare beneficiaries utilizing home health care services have five or more chronic conditions. This is also true when looking at Medicare Advantage (MA) beneficiaries, according to data from the Research Institute for Home Care (RIHC).
RIHC recently released its 2022 Home Care Chartbook, a detailed overview of the home health landscape that includes data on demographics and organizational trends.
“As in previous years, home health continues to serve an older, sicker and poorer patient population,” Jennifer Schiller, executive director at RIHC, told Home Health Care News.
RIHC found that 45% of all Medicare home health users have five or more chronic conditions, 17.3% have four chronic conditions, 13.8% have three chronic conditions and 23.9% have between zero...
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