Home Health Care

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

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

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

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

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

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Home care executives are expecting a few separate things to shake up the market in the coming years. Consolidation in home care has lagged compared to home health care. One of the reasons why is that PE involvement in personal home care has also lagged. Sorrenti, CEO of Best Life Brands.

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Home Health Care

AUGUST 30, 2021

CommonSpirit Health carved out $136 million in savings to Medicare for 2020, while also improving overall outcomes for hundreds of thousands of beneficiaries, the company recently announced. CommonSpirit Health is a participant in the Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP), which began back in 2012 after being designed by the U.S.

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Home Health Care

AUGUST 25, 2022

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has awarded one of its ACO REACH contracts to Upward Health, a multidisciplinary at-home care provider. ACO REACH is a risk-sharing program between companies and the government, standing for Accountable Care Organization (ACO) Realizing Equity, Access, and Community Health.

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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

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

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

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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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

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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Home Health Care

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

JANUARY 21, 2022

The article is based on an interview that took place during a live panel discussion with Adrian Schauer, Founder and CEO of AlayaCare; Vicki Hoak, Executive Director of Home Care Association of America; Todd Austin, Chief Operating Officer for Home Care Pulse; and Shiwan Chung, leader of MedTec Healthcare.

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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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Briggs Healthcare

JUNE 28, 2023

Both the changes to Nursing Home Care Compare and the publishing of the Nursing Home Affiliated Entity Performance Measures dataset on data.cms.gov will take place on June 28, 2023. Affiliated entity names and ID numbers will be published in the ownership sections for each facility on Nursing Home Care Compare.

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Home Health Care

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

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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Home Health Care

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

While there’s still much to learn about Omicron, its emergence is yet another reminder that the pandemic is far from over for home health and home care providers. Be vigilant,” a LeadingAge spokesperson told in-home care providers in a message shared with Home Health Care News. In the background.

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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

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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HIT Consultant

AUGUST 13, 2024

A McKinsey report predicted that up to $265 billion worth of care services for Medicare and Medicare Advantage beneficiaries could shift to home care by 2025. It has notably reduced chronic condition care plan development time to just three minutes.

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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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HIT Consultant

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

What You Should Know: – ConcertoCare , a value-based care provider of at-home care for seniors and other adults with unmet health and social needs raises $105M in Series B funding led by Wells Fargo Strategic Capital. At-Home Care Model to More Seniors with Unmet Health and Social Needs. Why It Matters.

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Home Health Care

JULY 15, 2022

This article is sponsored by Integrated Home Care Services. In this Voices interview, Home Health Care News sits down with Integrated Home Care Services (IHCS) co-founder Paul Pino to learn the top challenges in the home-based care space, and how the IHCS model addresses those challenge s.

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Home Health Care

APRIL 15, 2024

Last week, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Innovation Center announced a new proposed model that will undoubtedly affect home health providers, and also allow them the opportunity to get more involved in value-based care initiatives. TEAM would be yet another model furthering that goal, if enacted.

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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

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

MAY 8, 2023

“The outstanding depth of his experiences and accomplishments as a leader within a variety of nonprofit and academic health care settings makes him the ideal person to lead Hebrew SeniorLife in its mission to empower seniors to live their best lives.” Nasdaq: MODV).

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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

JUNE 20, 2023

This article is a part of your HHCN+ Membership In the broader at-home care space, Dr. Michael Le is considered an innovator. His impressive resume — which also includes time at Optum Home & Community Care and CareMore Health Plan — places him at the forefront of the movement bringing more care to the home and the community.

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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

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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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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Home Health Care

JULY 18, 2024

He will head up the company’s strategic initiatives around Medicare Advantage (MA), and a virtual home health model to support MA business. Bringing Jeff on board is a huge lift for New Day as we continue to ‘Burn the Ships’ and change the way home health care is delivered,” New Day CEO G.

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