Firms May Take Advantage of Home Care Reimbursement
Home health care companies might be taking advantage of an incentive in the Medicare reimbursement system to garner additional payments for potentially unnecessary care, according to a Wall Street Journal analysis. Medicare reimbursements are calculated in part by the amount of at-home therapy visits that patients receive, plus an extra fee that is made available when a patient hits a certain number of visits.
- "Home Care Yields Medicare Bounty" (Martinez, Wall Street Journal, 4/26).