Home Health Care News July 28, 2021
Enrollment in fee-for-service (FFS) Medicare has started to accelerate in recent years, as more members of the baby-boom generation age into the program.
At the same time, the number of individual home health agencies in the U.S. continues to decline.
That’s according to the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC), which reported on emerging Medicare trends and the latest post-acute care figures as part of its July 2021 data book.
As far as the overall program, Medicare remains the nation’s largest single purchaser of health care, with home health care services accounting for a decent chunk of spending. Of the $3.2 trillion spent on personal health care in 2019, Medicare accounted for 23% — or $743 billion — of that total.
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