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Help open doors to necessary home health care.

As we have reported, the Center has been hearing more and more about people who meet Medicare criteria but cannot obtain, or retain, necessary home health care ordered by their physicians. In particular, people living with long-term and debilitating conditions such as ALS, MS, paralysis and Parkinson’s disease find themselves without necessary home care. For example, patients have been told that Medicare will only cover 1 to 5 hours per week of home health aide care, or only one bath per week, or that they must first decline before therapy can commence (or recommence). Individuals and their families are struggling as a result of these inappropriate limitations with too little care, or no care at all. 

To respond to this crisis, the Center is building a coalition to support a Home Health Access Initiative.  The Initiative will oppose inappropriate restrictions on Medicare to open doors to Medicare-covered, necessary home care...............

• The Center for Medicare Advocacy, Inc., established in 1986, is a national nonprofit, nonpartisan law organization that provides education, advocacy and legal assistance to help older people and people with disabilities obtain fair access to Medicare and quality health care. The Center is headquartered in Connecticut and Washington, DC with offices throughout the country.