Improving Home Health Services for Medicare Beneficiaries

COVID-19 added urgency to ongoing discussions about “home-based care,” but little attention has been paid to Medicare services delivered by home health agencies. The Medicare home health benefit covers certain services for short periods of time, but fraud and abuse guardrails have reduced access to home health aide services for beneficiaries with complex conditions and exacerbated racial and ethnic disparities.

Please join BPC on April 28 for a panel discussion on our new report with recommendations for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to improve home health services for Medicare fee-for-service beneficiaries.

Read our report, Optimizing the Medicare Home Health Benefit to Improve Outcomes and Reduce Disparities.

Introduction by:

Bill Hoagland
Senior Vice President, BPC

Keynote remarks from:

Gretchen Jacobson
Vice President of Medicare, The Commonwealth Fund

Panel discussion with:

Anne Tumlinson
CEO, ATI Advisory

Chanee Fabius, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Ruth Katz
Senior Vice President of Public Policy and Advocacy, LeadingAge

Moderated by:

Lisa Harootunian, J.D.
Associate Director of the Health Project, BPC