Home Health Care News December 13, 2023
After stalling in 2021, spending on home health care returned to a more normalized growth rate in 2022, according to a new analysis from the Office of the Actuary at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS).
Specifically, national health expenditures on home health care increased by 6% to $132.9 billion in 2022. In 2021, spending only increased by 0.3%.
The analysis, which was published Wednesday in Health Affairs, also found that health care spending in the U.S. grew by 4.1% in 2022, reaching $4.5 trillion. Comparably, that’s above 2021 growth – 3.2% – but far below 2020 growth, which was 10.6%.
“In 2022, strong Medicaid and private health insurance spending growth, including a turnaround...
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