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Home Health Access Not a Problem Despite Closures, GAO Study Says

Published Thursday, July 01, 1999

Washington The General Accounting Office found little evidence that the interim payment system and resulting agency closures have hurt access to Medicare's home health benefit, according to a report released May 26. In Medicare Home Health Agencies: Closures Continue with Little Evidence Beneficiary Access Is Impaired, GAO said that although 14 percent of home health agencies closed between October 1, 1997, and January 1, 1999, beneficiaries are still served by more than 9,000 HHAs-about the same number as in 1996. GAO also pointed out that 40 percent of the closures were concentrated in three states that had experienced ...

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