Home Health Care

MARCH 7, 2024

But the failure of hospice’s fit within VBID points to larger problems that exist somewhere between home-based care providers and MA plans. Along the way, hospice care and other tangential services were supposed to become a larger part of the program. VBID was designed to help modernize the MA program.

Medicare 105

Medicare Home Care Hospice Care Accountability 105

Home Health Care

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Home Health Care News: Why don’t we all just talk about what your organization does and what you do for them? Ashley Puchalski: I’m with Ohio’s Hospice. We service about 60 of the 88 counties in Ohio, providing hospice care throughout the state. You’re looking at your margin profiles.

Nursing 97

Nursing Medicaid Accountability Home Care 97

NASHP

AUGUST 24, 2023

There are a number of strategies state health officials can use as they build sustainable access to palliative care services in their Medicaid programs. Target Populations That Could Benefit from Palliative Care Services Use data to identify Medicaid enrollees with serious illness.

Medicaid 52

Medicaid Quality Assurance Quality of Care Hospitals 52

Home Health Care

APRIL 11, 2024

Those two entities alone accounted for nearly half of all 2023 MA enrollment. It also would make Optum a hospice leader – and I question just how valuable that is for UnitedHealth Group. As of December 2023, Amedisys had 165 Medicare-certified hospice care centers in over 30 states. million in net services revenue.

Medicare 59

Medicare Regulations Hospice Care Accountability 59

Sheppard Health Law

JANUARY 6, 2023

In addition to funding, the Act modifies certain telehealth provisions, expands and extends components of the Medicare and Medicaid programs, and supports initiatives within the behavioral health and substance use treatment spaces. Recertification of Eligibility for Hospice Care. Medicaid & CHIP Adjustments.

Healthcare 52

Healthcare Medicaid Medicare Hospitals 52

Home Health Care

JUNE 20, 2023

I worked in the ER and hospitals and witnessed the end result of this fragmentation and uncoordinated care that was failing our patients, and so it started to give me a picture of the gaps in the access to care and what needed to be done to help fill that. The disenrollment rate for PACE is 5% less than the Medicare Advantage plans.

Home Care 105

Home Care Nursing Hospitals Prevention 105

Home Health Care

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) home health proposed payment rule – which would slash rates by 2.2%, or an estimated $375 million less compared to 2023 levels – drew the ire of the industry’s heaviest hitters during the public comment period. The comments were critical of the proposed rule itself.

Medicare 105

Medicare Hospice Care Primary Care Accountability 105

Sheppard Health Law

MARCH 3, 2023

This surge was facilitated, in part, by certain flexibilities authorized by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services in its response to the public health emergency (“PHE”) declared in March of 2020 and which was repeatedly renewed until now. On January 30, 2023, President Joe Biden announced that the PHE would end on May 11, 2023.

Hospice Care 52

Hospice Care Telemedicine Nursing Accountability 52

Icanotes

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Allow minors to easily delete their accounts and collected data. KOSA would also introduce new tools for parents to manage their children's account settings and privacy and allow them to report harmful content. Provide the ability to opt out of personalized recommendations. Restrict the minor's geolocation data.

Accountability 89

Accountability Prevention Private Practices Regulations 89

KHN

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

They argued the procedures were done needlessly, in keeping with a corporate strategy to maximize profits by overtreating kids from lower-income families enrolled in Medicaid. Senate report cited the TV exposé in voicing alarm at the " corporate practice of dentistry in the Medicaid program.” Five years later, a U.S.

Doctors 145

Doctors Tricare Medicaid Medical Services 145

KHN

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

They argued the procedures were done needlessly, in keeping with a corporate strategy to maximize profits by overtreating kids from lower-income families enrolled in Medicaid. Senate report cited the TV exposé in voicing alarm at the " corporate practice of dentistry in the Medicaid program.” Five years later, a U.S.

Doctors 52

Doctors Tricare Medicaid Medical Services 52