Rethinking Medicare home health - Brookings
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Home health care is an important component of the Medicare system, yet Medicare home health lacks a clear, agreed-upon objective.
The program appears to try to serve multiple purposes—substituting for institutional post-acute care, covering the costs of treatment and recovery from acute health events for home-bound patients, and providing in-kind, long-term services and supports (LTSS) to frail older adults. Current program design reflects an unresolved compromise among these objectives.
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