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Article: Feds put brakes on fast-growing home health care. (investigation of Medicare fraud)(Health Care Special Report: House Calls)(Industry Overview)
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- Los Angeles Business Journal
- Article date:
- November 10, 1997
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Home health care, once the province of small, community-based nonprofit organizations, has grown rapidly over the last decade into a business accounting for more than $30 billion a year - and one that is dominated by health care giants and hospitals.
Driven by cost-conscious managed care plans, new technologies, an aging population and an expansion of Medicare coverage, home care is now an integral part of health care for millions of Americans, especially here in Southern California, which has the highest proportion of managed care enrollees in the country.
"Home health care is one of the fastest-growing portions of the entire health care industry," said Phil ...