Reply #56: Here's the White House's 80 page plan for Deficit Reduction for the Super Committee [View All]

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for those who keep denouncing everything being discussed anywhere as hyperspeculation and saying they're waiting to hear whatever from the WH.

http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/omb/budget/fy2012/assets/jointcommitteereport.pdf

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and here's the language on the home health co-payments- page 39

Introduce home health co-payments for new beneficiaries. Medicare beneficiaries currently do not make co-payments for Medicare home health services.. This proposal would create a home health copayment of $100 per home health episode, applicable for episodes with five or more visits not preceded by a hospital or other inpatient post-acute care stay.. This would apply to new beneficiaries beginning in 2017.. This proposal is consistent with a MedPAC recommendation to establish a per episode copayment.. MedPAC noted that “beneficiaries without a prior hospitalization account for a rising share of episodes” and that “adding beneficiary cost sharing for home health care could be an additional measure to encourage appropriate use of home health services..” This proposal will save approximately $400 million over 10 years..