Building a Long-term Care Policy: Home Care Data and Implications : a Report |
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$6 million 75th percentile agencies Percent average agency average cost average number Chairman Pepper CHART cost per visit Cost to agency Dollar ranges Percent East North East South Employee category fiscal year 1982 FTEs HCFA data health aide visits HHAs home care home care services home health agencies home health aide home health services Homemaker-home health aides MARY ROSE OAKAR Medicaid medical social service Medicare program Middle Atlantic million to $6 Non-SMSA Number of agencies number of visits Number Percent Number nursing home Percent Number Percent Percent of agencies Percent of total Private pay charge providing direct services Range of number Range of visits reimbursement per hour reimbursement per visit Skilled nursing Physical SMSA South Central region Subcommittee on Health survey therapists therapy Homemaker home therapy Occupational therapy therapy Speech therapy Type of service UNW W UNW visit cost W UNW W weighted basis West North West South Central
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Page 54 - Table 20, p. 152. i«The nine census divisions are as follows: (1) New England: Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut; (2) Middle Atlantic: New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania; (3) East North Central: Ohio Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin; (4) West North Central: Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas; (5) South Atlantic: Delaware, Maryland...
Page 1 - ... nursing service under physician direction to a coordinated home care program which is centrally administered. Coordinated home care should include visiting nurse, home aide, laboratory services; physical therapy; drugs; and sick room equipment and supplies. The purpose...
Page 54 - Virginia, West Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida 6 East South Central Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi 7 West South Central Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Texas 8 Mountain Montana, Idaho, Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, Utah, Nevada...
Page 9 - Chairman of the Subcommittee on Health and Long-Term Care of the House Select Committee on Aging...
Page 54 - Mississippi; (7) West South Central: Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Texas; (8) Mountain: Montana, Idaho, Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, Utah, Nevada; (9) Pacific: Washington, Oregon, California. i» With the exception of the Pacific and Mountain divisions there is little variation between divisions.
Page 5 - Medicare, the homebound and skilled requirements for home health care should be eliminated and coverage of homemaker/chore services should be provided; in Medicaid, the states should utilize the new Community Care waiver.
Page 57 - The seniors are in need of home health services such as nursing, physical therapy, occupational therapy, speech therapy, medical social services, home health aide services, and medical supplies.
Page 1 - There is a consensus among the members of the Senate Special Committee on Aging that care in the home is a much needed service that at present is widely underutilized.
Page 3 - ... an alternative to institutionalization. Somehow it shocks the conscience and goes against the grain to deal with the subject in that context.
Page 2 - Those hearings have also demonstrated the possibility of significant cost savings for the government and the patients themselves in the many cases were expensive nursing home care can be avoided by appropriate home care.