Doing More with Less: Payment Cuts Meet Profit Margins and Patient Care in Home Care Response to National Health Care Reform

Abstract

This article is based on a telephone-based focus group with five Medicare home health agency executives conducted August 19, 2010. The purpose of the focus group was to discuss the primary actual and anticipated impacts of the national health care reform law, and related regulatory actions, and coping strategies. Themes were identified based on the conversation, with illustrative comments from the participants.