Budget
President’s FY2023 Budget Request Includes Few Home Care-Specific Policies
Boosts HHS Funding & Extends Sequestration to 2023 On Monday, March 28th, President Biden released a $5.8 trillion proposed budget for fiscal year (FY) 2023, which begins October 1st, 2022. While the White House budget is simply a request and Congress has final say on government spending, it does provide a window into the president’s priorities and where his […]
Read MorePresident’s FY2023 Budget Request Includes Few Home Care-Specific Policies
Boosts HHS Funding & Extends Sequestration to 2023 On Monday, March 28th, President Biden released a $5.8 trillion proposed budget for fiscal year (FY) 2023, which begins October 1st, 2022. While the White House budget is simply a request and Congress has final say on government spending, it does provide a window into the president’s […]
Read MoreKey Home Care Spending Approved by House of Reps
On a party line vote, the U.S. House of Representatives advanced the annual appropriations for the Department of Health and Human Services for fiscal year 2022, approving $119 billion in discretionary spending, an increase of $23 billion over the previous year. (Discretionary spending does not include Medicare and Medicaid care related expenses, as that is […]
Read MoreKey Home Care & Hospice Spending Approved by House of Reps
On a party line vote, the U.S. House of Representatives advanced the annual appropriations for the Department of Health and Human Services for fiscal year 2022, approving $119 billion in discretionary spending, an increase of $23 billion over the previous year. (Discretionary spending does not include Medicare and Medicaid care related expenses, as that is […]
Read MorePresident’s Budget Reinforces Goal of Unified Post-Acute Payment System, Takes Aim at Hospice in Nursing Homes
On Monday, February 10, 2020, a general outline of the President’s fiscal year (FY) 2021 budget was submitted to Congress. The FY2021 budget proposes to reduce spending on programs administered by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) by $1.6 trillion over the next 10 years, including $500 billion from Medicare and $920 billion […]
Read MoreAdministration Budget Calls for Spending Cuts, Prior Authorization, Unified Post-Acute Payment System
On Tuesday the White House released the President’s Fiscal Year 2020 Budget. Released annually, the President’s budget does not carry the weight of law, but does provide a robust view of the administration’s priorities, and the direction it would like to take the country. The Department of Health and Human Services outlined a projected budget […]
Read MoreProposed 2019 Budget Cuts CMS and ONC
The House Appropriations Committee has released a draft 2019 budget for the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) that proposes boosting the department by about $1 billion to $89.2 billion, but contains significant cuts for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC). […]
Read MoreNAHC Webinar on Impact of the New Budget on Home Care and Hospice
Please join the National Association for Home Care and Hospice (NAHC) on Thursday, February 15, 2018 at 2:00 PM Eastern for a discussion called “The Latest Policy and Budget Developments in Home Care and Hospice.” The issues covered in this webinar are the result of legislation signed into law by President Trump last week, the […]
Read MoreTrump Budget Calls for Cuts to Home Health, Medicare and Medicaid
President Donald Trump’s 2019 federal budget, entitled “Efficient, Effective, Accountable,” calls for cuts to home health, as well as hundreds of billions in spending reductions to Medicare and Medicaid over the next decade, and repeal of the Affordable Care Act. Under a section entitled “Implement a More Accurate Payment System for Home Health,” the budget […]
Read MoreCHRONIC Care Act Inclusion in Budget Deal is a Win for Home Care
The funding packages up for consideration in both the Senate and House of Representatives contain many provisions affecting home health and hospice. The NAHC Report has already covered provisions related to payment reform, the rural add-on, and the repeal of the Independent Payment Advisory Board. However, there are other victories for the home care and […]
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