Question

Identify a large long-term care system within your community (this may be a nursing home, a home care and/or hospice agency, an assistive living organization or a continuum of care organization) and arrange to interview their senior leader or administrator.

Interview Questions:

3.     Identify the challenges in long-term care reimbursement today.

Answer 1

Answer: There are following challenges that are present in the long term care reimbursement today

1. The long term care benefits are very expensive and their projected future costs are very difficult to ascertain. It is because of this reason that the insurance companies often tend to avoid making such payments in a honest way
2. The major problem faced by the hospitals today is to take care of the patients who does not have an insurance or are covered by the public health programs
3. There is a requirement for the restructuring of Medicare and Medicaid programs and developing a proper long term care policy as these policies are not adequate to take care of the expenses created during the long term care