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Labor Department Sends Home Health Companionship Final Rule to OMB
Late last month, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) sent a memo to members of Congress stating that the rule that would extend federal minimum wage and overtime protections to in-home health care...
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NAHC Meets with the Office of Management and Budget on Companionship Services...
The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) is in the process of reviewing the final rule drafted by the US Department of Labor (DoL) that would change the standards for applying the “companionship...
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What Sequestration Means for Home Care
Tomorrow’s deadline for Congress to reduce federal spending or face an across-the-board two percent cut to federal programs comes with many unanswered questions for the impact on home health providers....
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Home Care Workers Decry Lack of Wage Protection
It’s been a few months since President Barack Obama pledged to extend federal minimum wage and overtime protections to the nation’s 2.5 million home care workers – but the regs are still bottled up. A...
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Obama Administration Mulls Rule To Give Home Health Aides Better Wages
By Alvin Tran, Kaiser Health News As a home health aide, Nicole Fletcher, 40, provides personal assistance to the elderly, disabled and those living with chronic conditions in their own homes. She...
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Home Health Firms Met With OMB, But Failed To Avert Proposed Pay Cuts
By John Wilkerson, Inside Washington Publishers Representatives of the home health industry met with Office of Management and Budget officials to make a case against pay cuts shortly before CMS...
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