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Public commenter urges overhaul of Medicare rehab limits, tells Senate study committee family care gaps widen when rehab ends early
Summary
A public speaker told the Georgia Senate study committee that Medicare’s current limits on rehabilitation coverage can leave families to provide intensive care at home and asked lawmakers to consider changing benefit rules so rehabilitation is need‑based rather than restricted by lifetime caps.
Katrina Holmes, a family caregiver who testified during public comment, urged the Senate study committee to reexamine Medicare coverage rules that she said leave patients in acute hospital beds longer and then discharge them to families before functional recovery is complete.
Holmes described her family’s decade of caregiving after her father suffered a massive stroke and identified specific Medicare…
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