Medicare to Pilot Coverage of Adult Day Care

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently announced plans for a demonstration project that will allow some Medicare beneficiaries to receive medical adult day care services under the home health benefit. The demonstration will provide an opportunity for home health agencies to partner with medical adult day care facilities to provide these services to Medicare beneficiaries as a substitute for a portion of home health services that would otherwise be provided. Up to 15,000 beneficiaries at any one time will be eligible to enroll in the three-year demonstration, which is scheduled to begin in February, 2006.

- From “CMS Announces Medicare Demonstration For Day Care Services Under The Home Health Benefit”, at http://www.cms.hhs.gov/media/press/release.asp?Counter=1488, Retrieved 7/19/05.

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