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    CMS Launches Home Health Compare Baltimore In November, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services launched Home Health Compare, a database for beneficiaries featuring home health agency scores on 11 outcome measures, including, among others, dressing and bathing. CMS, which plans to update the database quarterly, compiled the data over a 12-month period ending in May of this year. For more, visit www.medicare.gov and click on “Home Health Compare.” KFF Posts Medicaid Information Washington The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, a non-profit health care research organization, has developed an online database about Medicaid benefits in all 50 states, Washington, D.C., and the U.S. territories. The database, available at www.kff.org, includes information about the benefits covered by each state and payment rules, and is searchable by…
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  • CMS Issues Home Health Market Report

    Baltimore The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ Health Care Industry Market Update, its first since June 2002, reveals that American home health spending totaled $45.3 billion in 2001, with the home health agency segment accounting for $33.2 billion. The remaining annual expenditures came from respiratory therapy at $4.5 billion; infusion therapy, $4.7 billion; and DME, $2.9 billion. Among other findings, the study calls the respiratory therapy market “very fragmented,” with more than 2,000 local providers making up half the market, but says that large respiratory and infusion therapy companies show strong operational and financial performance. Where strategic and attractively priced targets are available, these companies are actively consolidating the industry. The full report is available at www.cms.hhs.gov/reports/hcimu/default.asp. For breaking news, go to www.homecaremonday.com, the…
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    Noteworthy O2 Science Enters Oklahoma Market: Tempe, Ariz.-based O2 Science, a provider of respiratory therapy services and home health products, has
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  • Making Changes One Policy at a Time

    One look at Cara C. Bachenheimer’s dossier leaves no room for doubt about her dedication to the health care industry. A partner with the Washington-based
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