Medicare Home Health Care Payments to Home Health Agencies Are Considerably Higher Than Costs

By General Accounting Office

Book Id: WPLBN0000179039
Format Type: PDF eBook
File Size: 0.3 MB
Reproduction Date: 2005

Title:	Medicare Home Health Care Payments to Home Health Agencies Are Considerably Higher Than Costs
Author:	General Accounting Office
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Language:	English
Subject:	Government publications, Accountability in government, United States. General Accounting Office
Collections:	Government Library Collection, Government Accountability Integrity Reliability Office Collection
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Publisher:	United States General Accounting Office (Gao)


Citation APA MLA Chicago Office, G. A. (n.d.). Medicare Home Health Care Payments to Home Health Agencies Are Considerably Higher Than Costs. Retrieved from http://self.gutenberg.org/

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Government Accountability Integrity Reliability Office Collection

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Excerpt: Results in Brief 2 Background 3 Home Health PPS Episode Payments Are Considerably Higher than Estimated Costs of Care Provided 7 Conclusions 9 Matters for Congressional Consideration 10 Agency Comments and Our Evaluation 10 Appendix I Scope and Methodology 14 Appendix II Comments from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services 16 Appendix III GAO Contacts and Staff Acknowledgments 18 Tables Table 1: Average Estimated Cost per Home Health Episode and Average Home Health Episode Payment, January-June 2001 8 Table 2: Payment Amounts Compared to Average Estimated Costs for 10 Most Frequent Home Health Payment Groups, January-June 2001 9 Contents...