title: Home care goes corporate.
abstract: Some 18,000 home health agencies dot today's landscape--one of health care's last cottage industries. But the spread of managed care, plus long-promised Medicare payment reform, will change all that. Waves of consolidation and cost-cutting won't be far behind.
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Meyer
mesh_terms: D002204:Capitation Fee; D005376:Financial Management; D005607:Fraud / Q000517:prevention & control; D017048:Health Care Costs; D006273:Health Facility Merger; D006279:Health Maintenance Organizations / Q000191:economics; D018574:Home Care Agencies / Q000191:economics / Q000458:organization & administration* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data / Q000639:trends; D007449:Investments; D008329:Managed Care Programs / Q000191:economics / Q000639:trends; D008484:Medicaid; D006278:Medicare; D009935:Organizational Affiliation; D010067:Ownership; D014481:United States