Key Medicaid Home Health Bill Advances in Congress

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Bipartisan legislation to reauthorize a federal demonstration program to help Medicaid patients receive long-term care in their own homes and communities won approval on September 11, 2018 from the Energy and Commerce Committee’s subcommittee on Health in the House of Representatives. The EMPOWER (Ensuring Medicaid Provides Opportunity for Widespread Equity, Resources) Care Act (H.R. 5306) […]

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NAHC Supports Bill to Permit Disposal of Unused Hospice Meds in the Home

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The National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC) has written a letter to Rep. Tim Walberg (R-MI-7) to support his introduction of H.R. 5041, the Safe Disposal of Unused Medication Act, bipartisan legislation to permit safe disposal of unused hospice medication in the home by qualified personnel. Reps. Debbie Dingell (D-MI-12) and Richard Hudson […]

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