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Some would come from cuts in general payments to nursing homes, home health agencies, other providers, and drug companies.
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Note that the health services industry consists of hospitals, nursing homes, home health agencies, medical and dental laboratories and offices of health professionals, such as doctors, dentists and psychologists.
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For years, many home health agencies and skilled nursing facilities have interpreted Medicare rules to mean the program would not pay for rehab if a patient is not getting better.
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Moreover, the cuts to Part A providers (hospitals, home health agencies etc.) are so deep that the Medicare actuary projects 15 percent will be unprofitable by 2019, gradually increasing to 40 percent by 2050.
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According to the Medicare Trustees, Medicare payment reductions under the new law will cause hospitals, nursing facilities, and home health agencies to operate at a loss- 15 percent lose money by 2019, 25 percent by 2030, and 40 percent by 2050.
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Much like farming, medicine involves hundreds of thousands of local entities across the country hospitals, clinics, pharmacies, home-health agencies, drug and device suppliers.
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In the mid 1990s, he founded Datalogic Software, which creates software to simplify billing and scheduling from home health care agencies in Texas.
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Neil Garnham QC, representing the Home Office, said departments asked for information were the Atomic Weapons Establishment, the Cabinet Office, Home Office, Foreign Office, Health Protection Agency, the Ministry of Defence, intelligence and security agencies, and the Serious Organised Crime Agency.
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