Medicare Home Health Initiative: current activities and future directions
Mauser, E.
Health Care Financing Review 18(3): 275-291
1997
ISSN/ISBN: 0195-8631 PMID: 10170352 Document Number: 480038
This article describes the Medicare home health benefit and summarizes the growth and change in the use of the benefit and in the industry providing home health care. The article details the progress the Home Health Initiative has achieved in the key areas of quality assurance, administration and operations, and policy. It concludes with a discussion of future directions for reforming Medicare's home health benefit.