{"id":26416,"date":"2026-08-17T10:03:24","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T14:03:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=26416"},"modified":"2026-08-17T10:03:25","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T14:03:25","slug":"the-medicare-at-home-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=26416","title":{"rendered":"The Medicare at Home Act"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Representative Debbie Dingell (D-MI) and Senator Andy Kim (D-NJ) introduced the Medicare at Home Act. \u00a0The Medicare at Home Act aims to expand Medicare to include a home care benefit for beneficiaries who need assistance with daily living activities. Currently, Medicare does not cover long-term personal care at home, forcing many families to pay out-of-pocket, spend down into Medicaid, or forgo needed care, which can lead to higher costs through hospitalization or institutionalization. \u00a0Liza Berger, writing for McKnights Home Care, explains how the new legislation would require Medicare to cover long-term care at home. Read Ms. Berger\u2019s article <a title=\"here\u2026\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mcknightshomecare.com\/news\/new-bill-would-require-medicare-to-cover-long-term-care-at-home\/\">here\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><strong>Notice:<\/strong>\u00a0The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Representative Debbie Dingell (D-MI) and Senator Andy Kim (D-NJ) introduced the Medicare at Home Act. \u00a0The Medicare at Home Act<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":19115,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,21,20,5,10,6],"tags":[80,385,238,1451,61,94,2144],"class_list":["post-26416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cms","category-health-care-finance","category-health-care-redesign","category-home-health-services","category-legislative-update","category-medicare-general","tag-cms","tag-healthcare-costs","tag-healthcare-finance","tag-legistlation","tag-medicare","tag-older-adults","tag-the-medicare-at-home-act"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26416"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26417,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26416\/revisions\/26417"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/19115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}