How to Stop Pre-Claim Demonstration for Home Health Services - 6/17/2016

We know we all feel CMS has lost their mind trying to implement the Pre-Claim Demonstration for Home Health Services.  This program can only be stopped by the 46 million senior citizens in the country and other concerned citizens.  Congress and the President do not really care about the home health industry’s opinion of the program.  But they do care about the opinion of the 46 million senior citizens and other concerned citizens that will be voting in November. 

If you really want to stop the program listed below is a simple but effective game plan:

1. Have all of your patients, family members of your patients and friends of your patients contact their two US Senators, their Congressman, and the President of the United States.
2. Have all of your employees, family members of your employees and friends of your employees contact their two US Senators, their Congressman, and the President of the United States.
3. Notify your local TV, Radio, Newspapers, community leaders, elderly spokesman, churches and synagogues.  

What do the above people need to say about the Pre-Claim Demonstration for Home Health Services? 

1.  It will put patient care at risk if home health providers have to wait for approval of care.
2. At a time when we try to reduce the cost of Medicare, it will cause longer hospitalizations and nursing home stays and reduce lower cost home health stays.
3.  It will be a huge raise to the administrative cost of the Medicare program at a time when we need to focus on providing patient care.
4. The Medicare Administrative Contractors do not have the staff needed to implement the program.
5. It will waste administrative dollars targeting all home health agencies, instead of the potential abusers in the industry.
6. While the Medicare coverage of home health will appear to the beneficiaries to be unchanged the reality is it will be another barrier the administration is placing on home care benefits. 

We believe that if we can get the public to raise the above to their Congressman, Senators, and the President of the United States that we have an opportunity to stop this program.