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How To Boost Your Home Health Nursing Orientation For Free

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This is solely due to demand and the availability of Medicare and other funding for home health services. Just to give you an idea of the volume involved, In 2007 there were 9,024 Medicare home health agencies , and by 2017 that number had increased to 11, 593 agencies. billion in 2001 to $18.3 billion in 2012.

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And I entered home health pretty quickly as a young therapist and realized, oh my gosh, what a magnificent line of service that was really as best kept secret in the Medicare world. And so I went on a quest to find a framework and created one and in 2001 opened up home care sales. And that was awesome. And everybody wants that, right?

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To place quantities to all of this text, the number of agencies providing home health care in the United States grew from 8,314 in 2005 to 12,613 in 2013 with Medicare expenditures for home health care services alone nearly doubling from 9.7 billion in 2001 to about $18.3 billion in 2012. And outrageously in 2018, the U.S.