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Medicare Home Health: Effect on Spending of Limiting Payment for Non-Patient-Care Costs

HEHS-00-19R Published: Oct 19, 1999. Publicly Released: Oct 19, 1999.
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Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO modelled the impact of constraining, through various limits, home health agency (HHA) costs that are not directly related to patient care, focusing on the: (1) variation in total and non-patient-care costs across agencies; and (2) effect on Medicare payments if constraints were imposed on payments for non-patient-care costs.

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