Home Health Care

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

The company’s Modivcare Home division includes its personal care, remote patient monitoring (RPM) and nutritional meal delivery service offerings. Barbara Gutierrez, Modivcare’s CFO, also touched on the impact Medicaid redetermination has been having on the company. million members,” she said during the call.

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NASHP

JULY 25, 2022

Indiana’s Approach to Supporting Mobile Integrated Health Programs July 25, 2022/ by Jodi Manz. In the wake of the enormous strain caused by the COVID-19 pandemic across the health care system, states are considering opportunities to improve access to care while identifying ways to innovate the delivery of care.

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Home Health Care

DECEMBER 6, 2023

The home care provider Best of Care is expanding its portfolio once again, this time on its 43rd anniversary. On Wednesday, the company announced that it had acquired Barton’s Angels, also a home care provider. Best of Care has diversified its portfolio through acquisition over recent years.

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Home Health Care

APRIL 3, 2022

For the longest time, home care providers were just trying to gain a foothold in the broader health care sector. Now times have changed, as home care services have proven to be an integral part of the overall system, especially during the public health emergency. Michael Slupecki, CEO of Griswold Home Care.

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Home Health Care

OCTOBER 2, 2024

However, years after nationwide implementation, EVV still remains a burden for home care providers. Simply put, EVV confirms the details of in-home visits. The app sends the necessary information from their devices to their agency’s home care software. 1, 2020, and home health agencies by Jan.

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Home Health Care

APRIL 25, 2023

The in-home care provider, which specifically serves complex behavioral health patients, has opened up shop in Colorado. This need really exists in every state in the country,” McDonough told Home Health Care News. Colorado has a Medicaid program that supports the type of services we provide.”

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Home Health Care

AUGUST 4, 2023

“As payers and providers grapple with an increase in chronically ill populations, higher costs and tighter reimbursement rates — coupled with an evolving complex regulatory landscape — the quest for an integrated health care experience that combines quality, affordability and interconnected services is paramount.”

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Home Health Care

MARCH 28, 2022

We will continue to protect the integrity of our MassHealth program and ensure compliance with our wage and hour laws.”. Compassionate owner, Francis Kimaru, pleaded guilty to separate criminal charges brought in by the Attorney General’s Medicaid Fraud Division in September 2019. OIG releases Medicaid fraud report.

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Home Health Care

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

HouseWorks announced Thursday that it has signed an agreement to acquire Connected Home Care, a home care provider that operates in Eastern Massachusetts. As a company, Connected Home Care mainly serves Medicaid dual-eligible and private-pay clients.

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Home Health Care

AUGUST 2, 2024

Furthermore, helpful connects members to The Helper Bees’ nationwide network of over 20,000 vetted home care providers. In addition to the flex card, the partnership offers an integrated e-commerce experience, providing a wide range of products and services on a single platform.

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Home Health Care

JANUARY 17, 2022

starting with Choose Home. Potential cost-saving is what is attracting bipartisan support for this legislation,” Bill Dombi, president of the National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC), told Home Health Care News during a recent HHCN+ TALKS episode. How NAHC views the in-home care workforce situation.

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Home Health Care

FEBRUARY 6, 2022

Home care’s stock has continued to rise, as partners and payers increasingly acknowledge the value of non-medical support. But as home care providers increasingly solidify their role in the larger care continuum, they will need to beef up their sales and marketing efforts in order to truly capitalize on opportunities.

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Home Health Care

OCTOBER 3, 2024

The company oversees, coordinates and supervises care in the home. At the center of all of this is the belief that caregivers are an integral part of health care. During the conversation, Klein also talked about where sees home-based care business opportunities and how the company has been able to expand so rapidly.

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NASHP

OCTOBER 22, 2021

Supporting the Continuum of Care for Serious Illness in Medicaid Managed Care October 25, 2021 / by Salom Teshale, Kitty Purington, Wendy Fox-Grage, and Mia Antezzo. Comprehensive care coordination. billion on chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) per year. Assessment and management of pain and other symptoms.

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Home Health Care

JULY 22, 2023

While Medicare Advantage (MA) has been spotlighted as a potential new source of revenue for home care providers over the last couple of years, long-term care insurance (LTCI) has gone under the radar. Increasingly, home care providers have become bullish on LTCI plans and the untapped opportunities they may offer.

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NASHP

MAY 26, 2023

With caregivers increasingly asked to perform more intense and complex care , respite care is integral to giving caregivers a much-needed break. Respite care is a service typically delivered in the home or a facility-based setting that provides short-term relief for caregivers.

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Home Health Care

APRIL 23, 2022

One way MA offers cost protections to beneficiaries is through cost-share and premium buy-downs, Allison Rizer, principal and business lead of Medicare-Medicaid integration and LTSS at ATI Advisory, told Home Health Care News. Home care providers can serve as an important partner in these efforts.

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Home Health Care

DECEMBER 19, 2023

One of the most well-established independent home care companies in the nation is heading into the new year with a new identity – and a much larger overall business. Now, with 2024 in sight, the provider is approaching $400 million in revenue with a diversified payer mix increasingly weighted toward Medicaid.

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Home Health Care

AUGUST 20, 2024

Last week, a group of home care companies filed a lawsuit that also took aim at New York’s plan to reduce the number of fiscal intermediaries. Ultimately, Poricanin pointed out that programs like New York’s CDPAP are integral to the provision of home care services.

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Home Health Care

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

30 by a federal grand jury after allegedly defrauding Missouri Medicaid out of more than $3 million over a decade. Childress was indicted on four counts of health care fraud. In some cases, the care recipients were in the hospital and could not have received care, the indictment states.

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Home Health Care

MAY 29, 2024

HouseWorks – one of the largest non-franchised home care providers in the U.S. – The company has acquired AccordCare’s personal care division in Connecticut, which operates under the brands Companions & Homemakers and Companions Forever. Both of those brand names will remain past the integration stage with HouseWorks. “It’s

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Home Health Care

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Within the home care franchising world, there aren’t too many independent, founder-led organizations left. Caring Senior Service, founded in 1991 by CEO Jeff Salter, is one of the rare exceptions. That’s individuals paying directly out of pocket or by using their long-term care insurance. Staying nimble.

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Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

The New York State Health Home program is designed for the neediest Medicaid patients and aims to reduce overall healthcare costs by decreasing inpatient costs (and utilization) by addressing social determinants of health such as housing, transportation and food. "We think of her as a virtual assistant to our care coordinators.

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Home Health Care

JUNE 26, 2024

This article is a part of your HHCN+ Membership In a crowded home care ecosystem, companies are constantly looking for ways to stand out. For some that means putting innovative solutions in practice that will enhance operations and care services. We need more creativity around business models.

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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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Home Health Care

OCTOBER 16, 2024

The caregivers surveyed provided care to patients with an average age of 78 and an average of 11 comorbidities, including those with non-respiratory infections, heart failure and pneumonia. Regarding stress levels, 96% of surveyed caregivers found in-home care less stressful than a previous in-patient hospital experience. “We

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Home Health Care

DECEMBER 5, 2024

We know that most adults want to age in place at home, which is the right place as its proven to be better for overall health and well-being and more cost-effective than an institutionalized setting, Help at Home President Tim ORourke told Home Health Care News.

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Home Health Care

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Rodgers has over 25 years of health care experience, including home care, insurance, consulting and employee benefits. He was also formerly CEO of OptumHealth Collaborative Care, a division of UnitedHealth Group (NYSE: UNH) that owns, manages, and provides administrative and technology services to health care delivery systems.

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Home Health Care

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Despite these challenges, there are more conversations than ever on the future of palliative care from a public policy perspective, Davis Baird, director of government affairs for hospice at NAHC, said during the webinar. I think organizations define themselves by if they’re trying to be a consultative model,” she said.

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Home Health Care

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

This article is a part of your HHCN+ Membership Home care medicine has expanded significantly since the COVID-19 pandemic, with increasing demand from patients and improved payment models – in some cases. Most medical education still focuses on hospital, outpatient or classroom settings, with limited exposure to home care.

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Home Health Care

DECEMBER 20, 2023

There is great opportunity in market growth, as more and more people are in need of home care services. We will look to grow capacity in the market through workforce solutions, efficiency and unique partnerships of care delivery and coordination, all driving more market growth.

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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 6, 2023

This article is a part of your HHCN+ Membership One of the most intriguing story lines in home-based care over the next year will be whether home health providers can successfully make themselves an integral part of hospital-at-home care in the U.S.

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NASHP

APRIL 29, 2022

The Program of All Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE) was one of the first programs to deliver fully integrated care to Medicaid beneficiaries who are frail elders. million (67 percent) of the Medicaid beneficiaries who could benefit from PACE do not have access to PACE.

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Home Health Care

MAY 1, 2023

The provider is making moves to build an integrated care model that will demonstrate the ability to care for Medicare-Medicaid dual eligibles, while also embracing value-based care. Joseph, Michigan-based Home Sweet Home In-Home Care. It’s all about integration of care.

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Home Health Care

MAY 23, 2024

This article is a part of your HHCN+ Membership Hospital-at-home care has a chance to become a mainstay in the larger home-based care ecosystem. Firstly, without payment, there is no hospital-at-home model. We think they have this vision, like with BPCI-A, acute and post-acute care integrated and paid for together.

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Home Health Care

APRIL 18, 2024

This article is a part of your HHCN+ Membership Transaction volume for home health, home care and other in-home care businesses dipped in 2023, with inflation, higher interest rates and global unrest contributing to the downturn. Some are bridging the buyer-seller gap with earnout structures.

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