Repeal Medicare Demonstration to Protect Senior Home Health

As Americans age at this staggering rate, it is critical, now more than ever, that the option to age at home be accessible across our nation. Yet, home health care has been under siege by regulators and legislators over the past decade, including a series of reimbursement cuts, new burdensome and costly regulations, and the threat of copays that would hinder patient access to care. Florida has a unique vantage point on the issues impacting the home health industry; we are uniformly subject to policy makers' sledgehammer approach to eliminating fraud and abuse while working among the bad actors who exploit the Medicare program.