Home Health Care News December 5, 2019
National home health spending soared to new heights in 2018, a fact that strongly reflects the ongoing shift toward home- and community-based care and away from hospitals, skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) and other institutional settings.
Overall, U.S. home health spending officially hit $102.2 billion in 2018, according to a new analysis from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Office of the Actuary published Thursday in the journal Health Affairs.
That total is a more than 30% increase compared to all home health spending just five years ago.
Several factors have played into the rise of home health care this decade.
From a demographics, the U.S. population is...
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