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. Personal care sees more regulation Dombi warned private-duty personal care providers not to fall into the trap of viewing the industry as being free of regulation.

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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

MAY 2, 2022

The home care industry is changing. Its role in the overall health care system is growing, but the question is whether home care providers are doing enough to keep up with that growth. That’s all encapsulated in Home Care Pulse’s recently released 2021 Benchmarking Study. . The home care workforce.

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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

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

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. Amid the pandemic, the company approached CMS about expanding at-home care services, for instance. “We Currently, roughly 13.2 We have these conversations.”

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NASHP

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) published a critical report during the pandemic , finding that “the way the United States finances, delivers, and regulates care in nursing home settings is ineffective, inefficient, fragmented, and unsustainable.”

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Healthcare It News

AUGUST 29, 2022

Employees using Galileo avoid more expensive visits to in-person specialty, urgent or ER care 80% of the time. More than 85% of patients report improved health after receiving care from Galileo. From there, we established partnerships with both regional and national health plans to offer virtual-first care to their members.

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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

MARCH 13, 2022

While they’ll largely be targeting nursing homes and PE investment as part of a recently unveiled senior care initiative from the Biden administration, there will likely be ripple effects in the home-based care space. PE action in those spaces, in fact, has arguably outpaced nursing home investment. “In

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Home Health Care

APRIL 6, 2022

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine (NASEM) on Wednesday released its long-anticipated report on how to improve nursing home care in the U.S. Decades of underfunding have left America’s nursing home system in desperate need of an overhaul.”.

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Home Health Care

APRIL 17, 2023

Many nursing schools to not emphasize at-home care enough in their curriculum, which leads to less interest in home health care, especially earlier in nurses’ careers. Those with 10 or less years of experience accounted for 41% of those that exited the field. The data is clear: the future of nursing and of the U.S.

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HIT Consultant

JUNE 16, 2022

But how can people who don’t have the money and resources to integrate those expensive high-tech instruments into their at-home care routine monitor and improve their state of health? Consumers can obtain FDA-approved medical devices, but they are typically prescribed by physicians for at-home care.

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Home Health Care

AUGUST 23, 2023

Over the years, Maxim said she has seen providers cutting corners firsthand when hiring accountants to put together cost reports. When the data came back, the state was of the impression that home care costs were lower in 2016 than they were in 2010. MedPAC now takes that data from the cost reports and gives that to Congress.

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Home Health Care

MAY 24, 2024

Cutting funding year after year has only created turmoil in the very industry that is essential in providing stable, in-home care for vulnerable Americans.

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Briggs Healthcare

JULY 28, 2023

Findings : In this study, qualitative and quantitative data from 40 US nursing homes were integrated to assess staffing levels during the pandemic. Short-term compensatory strategies were used by administrators to comply with minimum staffing regulations and offset staffing shortages.

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Briggs Healthcare

APRIL 7, 2022

While many important improvements have been made since the enactment of the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1987, the provision of high-quality comprehensive care to all nursing home residents remains an elusive goal. High-quality research is needed to advance the quality of care in nursing homes.

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Home Health Care

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

It is important to note that the use of services, like skilled nursing at home, can impact downstream costs and reduce the unnecessary utilization of high-cost care. Revisiting the administrative burden that accompanies home-based care and removing red tape and barriers to access that are unique to home-based care.

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Home Health Care

AUGUST 1, 2022

The home health industry at large is excited about the prospects of the Choose Home Care Act of 2021. It’s also – to some extent – been cast aside in home health providers’ minds, given all the mayhem going on related to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) proposed rule for 2023. . “If

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Sheppard Health Law

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

New Subpart 521-1: Compliance Programs The adopted regulations represent substantial changes to 18 N.Y.C.R.R. Part 521 governing the implementation and operation of effective compliance programs for certain “required providers,” including, now for the first time, Medicaid managed care organizations (MMCOs). [1]

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Home Health Care

JUNE 17, 2022

Dombi, the president of the National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC), wrote in a comment shared with Home Health Care News. “Reliable analyses proves that PDGM underpaid home health agencies. We are very disappointed in the CMS proposed rule issued today,” William A.

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GoMoHealth

AUGUST 25, 2022

Proper treatment for mental illness is essential, helping patients regulate their symptoms and reduce rates of substance abuse, unemployment, and illegal activity so they can lead healthier, happier lifestyles. Yet, out of 35.4

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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

JANUARY 26, 2022

“Patrick is a proven and effective leader who has the board’s full support to lead InnovAge and to quickly address the issues that have arisen with CMS and our regulators in California and Colorado,” InnovAge Board Chair Andrew Cavanna said in a press release. “We Paul, Minnesota-based health care spending account (HSA) administrator.

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NASHP

JANUARY 12, 2024

Direct care workers — such as personal care and home care aides as well as certified nursing assistants — provide care services to individuals and older adults with complex needs. million annual appropriation for interagency collaboration on long-term care integrity and oversight.

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Home Health Care

JUNE 15, 2022

Brent Korte, the chief home care officer for the Washington-based EvergreenHealth Home Care, went around explaining HHVBP to his employees in the most simple of ways: If there are 60 home health providers, the “bottom 30” are going to end up paying for the “top 30” providers’ increased adjustments.

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Home Health Care

OCTOBER 31, 2022

For context, 51% of agencies were in danger of going in the red had CMS’ proposed payment adjustments been finalized, according to a summer analysis from the National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC).

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Briggs Healthcare

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Earlier this year, CMS and HHS also proposed a rule in September to establish national minimum staffing standards for nursing homes to enhance the quality and safety of care. HHS continues to take action to improve the safety, quality, and accountability of nursing homes,” said HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra.

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Sheppard Health Law

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

According to the Congressional Research Service, which analyzed data from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) National Health Expenditure Accounts (“NHEA”) on the personal health expenditures for LTSS by payer, in 2021, an estimated $467.4 trillion spent on personal health care. [3] billion was spent on LTSS.

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Health Populi

APRIL 16, 2024

Health care is delivered through an omnichannel platform accessible to all consumers, tailored for personalization. Quincy has great trust in this health care system, appreciating that customization also takes into account peoples’ values, ethnicities, and clinical needs. to account for ruining our mental health.

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Home Health Care

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Home Health Care News: Brad, what career experiences do you most draw from in your role today as COO of Careficient? Brad Caldwell: I have been in the home care and hospice space since I was a 22-year-old telehealth sales rep. A few years ago, you would see a company that was 100% Medicare home care only.

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Home Health Care

JANUARY 9, 2023

A clinician that receives those orders needs to have enough critical thinking skills and wound care knowledge to be able to generate some possible treatment options to present back to that provider. What are some of the most pressing home care issues outside of staffing today?

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Home Health Care

MAY 4, 2023

The heightened attention on personal care services leads to necessary sophistication, oversight and regulation. The company’s remaining full-risk contracts only account for 20% of NEMT revenue, compared to 60% at the beginning of the pandemic. Personal care sees growth Overall, Modivcare’s revenue for Q1 was $662.3

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Briggs Healthcare

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

CMS has also finalized updates to regulatory text to consolidate statutory references to data submission and to codify in regulations the HH QRP measure removal factors previously finalized via rulemaking. The HH PPS Final Rule (232 pages) is available at [link].

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

The second graphic titled “ready to start your health journey” kicks off the downloading of the app and creating an account, and ends with a $10 off grocery coupon. As many consumers told Morning Consult, “price” and cost of apps are top-of-mind when it comes to opting-in to their adoption and continued use.

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Briggs Healthcare

AUGUST 29, 2023

Nurse staffing levels vary considerably across nursing homes nationwide, and by nursing home characteristics such as location, size, and profit status. Federal regulations require nurse staff availability 24 hours a day, but do not specify a minimum staffing level. Below are key findings from the Staffing Study.

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Home Health Care

OCTOBER 17, 2021

Providing the care that’s best for the patient ends up being best for the provider, and that results in great returns on investment. Currently, home-based care accounts for at least 12% of Summit’s spend right now, a number that could potentially rise in the future, but is still significant in the meantime.

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