First Opinion Podcast

65: Home health care is facing devastating 'clawbacks'


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Terry Wilcox's grandmother lived in an isolated house at the top of a hill overlooking the magical mountains and valleys of the Ozarks until, as she tells it, "the day we literally had to drag her off of it." Home health care services have helped keep Wilcox's family healthy and safe — and reduce her stress — but they aren't equally accessible to everybody. Wilcox, a co-founder and CEO of the nonprofit advocacy group Patients Rising, discusses how that uneven ground is now being further threatened by Medicare's proposal for deep cuts and clawbacks to payments made during the pandemic for home health care.
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