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‘The Patient Pays The Price’: Home Health Stakeholders Slam Medicare Advantage Plans As CMS Comment Period Closes

Home Health Care

What’s more, MA home health patients generally have worse functional outcomes compared to traditional Medicare patients, partly because they often receive fewer visits, according to a 2024 study from the Department of Rehabilitation Medicine at University of Washington. Similar MA grievances can be heard from beyond home health care as well.

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How CommonSpirit Reduced Medicare Spending by $136M

Home Health Care

It offers specialized home care, home infusion, hospice and medical transportation services nationwide. Under the MSSP, CommonSpirit has improved care outcomes for 335,000 Medicare beneficiaries through its 14 accountable care organizations (ACOs). Plus, it boasts an average quality score of 98%.

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27 Of Home-Based Care’s Fastest-Growing Companies

Home Health Care

1 spot is Vytalize Health, an accountable care organization (ACO) and value-based care platform that works with physicians and primary care practices. The company touts in-home care as one of its key solutions. It offers services such as nursing, personal care, rehabilitation, clinical care and more.

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Industry Fragmentation Has Left Home Health Providers ‘Exploited’ by Medicare Advantage

Home Health Care

Seeking improvements in that area, the Birmingham, Alabama-based company is dedicating more resources to the home health and hospice team focused on Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) and value-based care payment methodologies, knowing that’s where managed care is looking to go.

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Navigating the Challenges of Treating Co-Occurring Disorders

Icanotes

Those living with co-occurring disorders will benefit from a collaborative team of case managers, therapists, psychiatrists, nurses and rehabilitation specialists who cross-train each other on a patient's progress for a continuum of care.

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A Model Act for State Oversight of Proposed Health Care Mergers

NASHP

Health care provider” means any person, corporation, partnership, governmental unit, state institution or any other entity qualified or licensed under state law to perform or provide health care services. Section 2: Notice. (A)

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Roundups: 17 Recent Strategic Digital Health Partnerships

HIT Consultant

Covered employees can receive care wherever and wherever needed via a virtual visit through the MyChart patient portal or through Captive Health’s mobile application. Spatially Health partners with ilumed , an Accountable Care Organization REACH comprised of more than 2,600 physicians and 56,000 Medicare patients to lead SDOH efforts.