Home Health Care Use Among Medicare Beneficiaries From 2010 to 2020.

ABSTRACT: Medicare home health coverage is an important resource for Medicare beneficiaries requiring health care at home. However, there have been changes in the United States health care system that might impact home health utilization such as pressures to constrain Medicare spending, growth in Medicare Advantage (MA) plan enrollment, decline in institutional long-term care and growth of Medicaid home- and community-based services. Given these changes, we examined home health care use trends among beneficiaries enrolled in traditional Medicare (TM) and MA from 2010 to 2020. We separately examined home health episodes that were initiated after a hospital or skilled nursing facility discharge and those initiated within the community and among dually and non-dually eligible beneficiaries. Home health

SUBMITTER: Kim S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12018719 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature