The increase in home health providers supporting healthy living and illness prevention and a movement toward deinstitutionalization of technology-dependent children and adults are the result of Medicare and third-party payers changing:
a. criteria for admission.
b. age of eligibility.
c. reimbursement criteria.
d. length of financial support.
C
The increase in home health providers supporting healthy living and illness prevention and the movement toward deinstitutionalization of technology-dependent children and adults resulted from Medicare and third-party payers changing reimbursement criteria.
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