Home Health Care News November 13, 2025
Every senior who loses access to care in rural America is paying the price for criminals exploiting Medicare in Los Angeles.
Los Angeles County now accounts for nearly ten percent of all Medicare home health spending, or about 1.5 billion dollars each year. Payments per patient there are almost five times higher than the national average. Those inflated figures distort how the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) sets payment rates for the entire country.
Because CMS uses national data to determine reimbursement, inflated billing from one region drives down rates everywhere else. Law-abiding home health providers in places like upstate New York, where costs are honest and margins are tight, are being paid less than what care actually...
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