Growth in home health care failing to keep up with surging demand, study finds
E-Mail IMAGE: "Only 0.7 percent of physicians in Medicare provided home care regularly, " said Nengliang "Aaron " Yao, PhD, a researcher with the University of Virginia School of Medicine's Section of Geriatric Medicine.... view more Credit: Dan Addison | UVA Communications Recent growth in the number of healthcare workers providing home care for Medicare patients is "small and inadequate" compared with the increasing demand in an aging America, a new study suggests. To have hope of keeping up, Medicare likely will need to reconsider how it compensates providers for home care, ...