title: Home care at a crossroad.
abstract: This decade's fastest growing segment of the health care industry, home health care, is facing a significant challenge as a result of changes in Medicare reimbursement included in the Balanced Budget Act of 1997. The implications could prove to substantially reshape the industry as well as many of its providers.
authors.affiliation: Visiting Nurse and Hospice Services of Southwest Michigan, Kalamazoo, USA.
authors.forename: B L
authors.initials: BL
authors.lastname: Larson
mesh_terms: D002017:Budgets / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D005102:Health Expenditures; D006699:Home Care Services / Q000191:economics* / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D007349:Insurance, Health, Reimbursement / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence / Q000639:trends*; D006278:Medicare / Q000191:economics / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D008824:Michigan; D014481:United States