Wall Street Journal Examines Calls for Regulation of Home Health Care Industry To Prevent Abuses by Caregivers as Industry Grows
Tuesday, July 15th, 2008.
The Wall Street Journal on Tuesday examined calls to increase oversight of the expanding home care industry in light of a "growing number of cases of abuse, neglect or fraud in which home caregivers take advantage of the frail and the ill."
The trend toward home health care is seen as a way of keeping elderly U.S. residents "happier and healthier" than at a nursing home and at a lower cost. On average, it costs Medicaid $6,000 annually per person for home care, compared with $20,000 annually per person for nursing home care.
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