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Why Accurate Cost Reporting Could Be Key To Higher Rates In Home Health Care

Home Health Care

Over the years, Maxim said she has seen providers cutting corners firsthand when hiring accountants to put together cost reports. At the same time, Markette believes CMS is too far removed from the actual day-to-day realities of home health and hospice care. CMS still views hospice like it’s 1979,” he said.

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Future Leader: Nicholas D’Addabbo, Vice President of Strategy, Innovive Health

Home Health Care

The program is designed to recognize up-and-coming industry members who are shaping the next decade of senior housing, skilled nursing, home health, and hospice care. Nicholas D’Addabbo, vice president of strategy at Innovive Health, has been named a 2022 Future Leader by Home Health Care News.

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Exploring What An Amedisys Divestment Strategy Could Look Like

Home Health Care

In the case of Amedisys, regulators are likely spending more time evaluating industry-competition ramifications because UnitedHealth Group and Optum acquired one of Amedisys’ largest competitors, LHC Group, at the beginning of 2023. Those two entities alone accounted for nearly half of all 2023 MA enrollment.

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Supporting the Continuum of Care for Serious Illness in Medicaid Managed Care

NASHP

Arizona’s End of Life and Advanced Care Planning benefit is referenced in its MCO contracts and further described in state regulations. Adults may receive benefits along with curative care until they choose to receive hospice. Children may access services along with both curative and hospice care.

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Health Information Security – My Interview with Richard Kaufmann, CISO of Amedisys – Part 1: Origin Stories, the Security Ecosystem, and the Start Line

Health Populi

For highly regulated industries like healthcare, cybersecurity and data protection go hand in hand. Being a great team member is being able to hold yourself accountable. Self-sufficiency and accountability are soft skills that allow our security team Amedisys to thrive, even with a limited number of headcounts.

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Key Healthcare Provisions of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023

Sheppard Health Law

By extending these flexibilities, the Act takes steps to ensure continuity of care for Medicare beneficiaries, provides regulators with additional time to determine which flexibilities will be made permanent, and also allows providers to adapt to a changing regulatory landscape. Recertification of Eligibility for Hospice Care.

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Sick Profit: Investigating Private Equity’s Stealthy Takeover of Health Care Across Cities and Specialties

KHN

Federal regulators, meanwhile, are almost blind to the incursion, since private equity typically acquires practices and hospitals below the regulatory radar. Some injured patients are turning to the courts in hopes of holding the firms accountable for what the patients view as lapses in care or policies that favor profits over patients.

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