Home Health Care

APRIL 23, 2024

This article is a part of your HHCN+ Membership On Tuesday, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) officials vehemently backed the thought process behind the “80-20” wage mandate in home- and community-based services (HCBS). National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC) President William A.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has stated its objective to enroll all of its Medicare beneficiaries in accountable care relationships by 2030. million Medicare fee-for-service beneficiaries are assigned to an ACO. Currently, roughly 13.2 We’d like to try it that way.’

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AUGUST 25, 2023

The Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP) continues to save Medicare over a billion dollars annually. And some of the highest-performing, most innovative Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) participating in the program continue to generate savings by effectively using home-based care.

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Home Health Care

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

One comment you made at HHCN’s FUTURE event, which I thought was interesting, was that there needs to be a maturation process in the home health industry in order to capitalize off of some of the opportunities that are out there, specifically in Medicare Advantage (MA). In a lot of cases, the home-based care isn’t accountable.

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Home Health Care

MAY 28, 2024

Helping these kinds of home-based care companies see success in these arrangements has become Integrated Home Care Services’ sweet spot as a driver of value-based care. I had started doing deals, or transactions, within the home care space, and I was introduced to someone within the home care sector.

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Home Health Care

NOVEMBER 7, 2021

Now that the final home health payment rule for 2022 has been floating around for a few days, industry insiders have had time to pick it apart and zero in on key changes, including the nationwide expansion of the Home Health Value-Based Purchasing (HHVBP) Model. This delay will give home health providers across the U.S.

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Home Health Care

OCTOBER 25, 2024

This article is a part of your HHCN+ Membership The Federation of American Hospitals (FAH) released a statement Thursday regarding recent investigations into Medicare Advantage (MA) plans. Those investigations included concerns around claim denials, as well as discrepancies between MA plan practices when compared to traditional Medicare.

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Home Health Care

APRIL 27, 2023

About a dozen years ago when Will Putman took over the business development side of Continuous Home Care, his dad — the co-founder of the company — had an unofficial benchmark nicknamed “blackjack.” Continuous Home Care is a Pennsylvania-based home health provider with about 350 employees.

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Home Health Care

APRIL 28, 2023

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) proposed a new rule that would make major changes to the way that home care workers are compensated under Medicaid. Anderson also noted that home care agencies working under Medicaid often vary in size. On Thursday, the U.S.

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Home Health Care

AUGUST 19, 2022

Integrated Home Care Services hires new CEO. Integrated Home Care Services Inc. Indeed, the appointment comes on the heels of Integrated Home Care Services’ national expansion efforts. Currently, Integrated Home Care Services delivers home-based care to over 2.2

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Home Health Care

OCTOBER 23, 2023

In this Voices Interview, Home Health Care News sits down with Kris Novak, Managing Director, Home Health, Home Care and Hospice, The Braff Group, to share the lessons he’s learned as a buyer of home health and hospice agencies that every seller should know. To learn more, visit [link].

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Home Health Care

APRIL 6, 2022

And while there are plenty of kinks to work through before these benefits become a significant revenue driver for home-based care agencies, their increasing popularity is undoubtedly encouraging. Take into account the plans offering IHSS through either pathway, and that number jumps to 18% of all plans, or 952 total plans.

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MAY 16, 2024

This article is a part of your HHCN+ Membership If there were ever a time for Medicare Advantage-related troubles to cool off in the home health care space, now would be it. And, heading into the summer, some of the largest home health providers in the country are scoring demonstrable wins that could lead to future success.

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Home Health Care

JUNE 9, 2022

Yet onehome, a home-focused post-acute care organization that operates under a full-risk model, is just as important to the Louisville, Kentucky-based health insurer’s in-home care strategy. onehome’s integrated model creates a single point of accountability that takes into account the.

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Home Health Care

AUGUST 25, 2021

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is sure to add more fuel to the fire for the “Choose Home” initiative and other movements aiming to bring more care into the home. 31, 2020, accounting for the majority of the COVID-19 pandemic in the U.S. The study period was between March 1, 2020, and Dec.

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Home Health Care

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Before other states start to consider minimum wage increases for home care workers, it would be beneficial for them to understand what has – and hasn’t – gone well in New York. In the spring of 2022, New York legislators passed a law that gave home care workers an extra $1 per hour above the state’s $15 minimum wage.

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DECEMBER 20, 2022

Data examinations are beginning to shed greater insight on just how much better value-based payment models are for quality of care. When comparing two-sided risk models in Medicare Advantage (MA) versus fee-for-service Medicare programs, the former performed better in all eight quality-of-care metrics.

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Home Health Care

JUNE 29, 2022

House lawmakers are pushing for more oversight of Medicare Advantage (MA) plans in light of concerns over higher spending, improper claim denials and access to treatment. Several studies have raised concerns that insurance companies are denying beneficiaries’ access to treatment and imposing burdensome requirements that delay care.

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Home Health Care

MAY 24, 2024

What is surprising is that the program they continually target in budget cutbacks has an impressive record of saving the government billions: Medicare-certified home health care. Government-funded health care programs like Medicare, Medicaid and Medicare Advantage (MA) home health are closely connected in how they are financed.

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Home Health Care

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released its FY 2023 home health final payment rule late Monday. It comes with an estimated increase to 2023 home health payments of 0.7%, or $125 million, compared to 2022 aggregate payments. For providers with a Medicare certification date prior to Jan.

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Home Health Care

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

This article is a part of your HHCN+ Membership Home-based care providers avoiding the shift to value-based care are running out of time and excuses. Home health providers are already under the Home Health Value-Based Purchasing (HHVBP) Model, which is, by definition, a value-based care model.

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Home Health Care

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Medicare Advantage (MA) plans are now allowed to tout the benefits they will be offering their members in 2023. Home-based care providers should be “delighted” at what the preliminary data shows. The growth for in-home support services is really significant,” Cromer told Home Health Care News. “I

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DECEMBER 22, 2023

Like so many providers that survived the COVID-19 pandemic, HCR Home Care feels like it is just getting its feet underneath it again. Founded in 1978, HCR Home Care is a provider of home care and health services across New York state. at the time and she was trying to find care for her father in Rochester.

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JULY 22, 2024

As home health providers continue to digest the proposed payment rule for 2025 , National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC) President William A. They were telling us that because they believed [providers] were making too much profit in the Medicare program. The cuts will be reduced because, No.

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Home Health Care

DECEMBER 15, 2021

A new analysis from the Office of the Actuary at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) estimates that health care spending in the U.S. And home health care, in particular, experienced robust spending growth. Medicare spending hit $829.5 increased 9.7% trillion in 2020. in 2020, up from 15.3%

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Home Health Care

SEPTEMBER 3, 2022

Seniors on Medicare Advantage health plans may not always be receiving high quality care, a new study shows. The study’s authors concluded that paying higher premiums is not always necessary when seniors are trying to receive high quality care from an MA plan.

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Home Health Care

JUNE 17, 2022

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released its FY 2023 home health proposed payment rule late Friday. Dombi, the president of the National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC), wrote in a comment shared with Home Health Care News.

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Home Health Care

JULY 8, 2024

Providers examining the 2025 home health proposed payment rule may be experiencing some déjà vu, according to William A. Dombi, the president of the National Association for Home Care & Hospice’s (NAHC). Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) unveiled its home health proposed payment rule for 2025.

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Home Health Care

MARCH 30, 2023

This article is a part of your HHCN+ Membership During the last week of March, hundreds of stakeholders vied on behalf of home-based care in Washington, D.C., Personal home care provider and advocate voices did so with an excitement for the future, fresh off the high of the president mentioning multiple times in a month.

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Home Health Care

AUGUST 29, 2022

A number of home-based care providers – and businesses in the aging services sector at large – are among some of the nation’s fastest-growing companies. One of these companies, connectRN, is a platform meant to aid nurses and other care professionals trying to find work. In fact, these companies recently grabbed a spot on Inc.

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MARCH 28, 2024

Provider leaders see home care union demands as unrealistic. Private-pay home care is the exception, where agencies can pass additional wage costs onto the consumer. Home care unionization efforts ticked up prior to the pandemic, but slowed once COVID-19 began to spread. At least for now. Yes,” he said.

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Home Health Care

MARCH 14, 2024

Individuals who are dually eligible for both Medicare and Medicaid make up a sizable portion of the overall home-based care population. Too often, though, this dual status comes with frustrating challenges around care plans and coordination. In Medicaid, duals account 30% of spending and 14% of enrollment.

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Home Health Care

JUNE 13, 2022

About 85% of Signify’s business comes from its home and community-based services business, which is mostly done through Medicare Advantage (MA). And as the use of Medicare grows in the home health space, Senneff said he expects Signify’s investment in that payment model to increase. “I

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Home Health Care

MAY 5, 2023

As Medicare Advantage (MA) penetration continues, home health agencies are coming to grips with the additional — and sometimes hidden — costs that are associated with transitioning to a payer mix more dominated by MA. They’re so large and their processes have worked so well for traditional Medicare.

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MARCH 7, 2024

Hospice providers began to work with Medicare Advantage (MA) via the Value-Based Insurance Design (VBID) demonstration in 2021. This will have an impact on home health providers who offer hospice services, obviously. This will have an impact on home health providers who offer hospice services, obviously.

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Home Health Care

OCTOBER 17, 2024

“What we’ve got to do is improve our margins,” Pinnacle Home Care CEO Shane Donaldson recently said at Home Health Care News’ FUTURE conference. Pinnacle Home Care, based in Oldsmar, Florida, is a Medicare-certified home health care company that delivers services across the state.

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Home Health Care

JANUARY 30, 2023

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released a final rule Monday that takes aim at overpayments and accountability within Medicare Advantage (MA). Home health and home care providers have been vying for more MA oversight for years. billion in overpayments to start.

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