Caring : National Association for Home Care magazine
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The quality assurance guidelines for clinical practice in speech/language pathology are effective for assuring the provision of quality clinical services to patients, as well as increasing revenues for hospitals and home care agencies by decreasing or eliminating denials for speech/language pathology claims. The guidelines can be used to evaluate the service and performance of speech therapists employed either directly or by independent contract.
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This article reviews the conceptual difficulties in using the existing Medicare and Medicaid systems to provide community-based long-term care to older persons, discusses the role of the Older American's Act and Area Agencies on Aging in the effective provision of community-based long-term care, and presents several basic principles for long-term care legislation.