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. States have responded to this call for action and are integrating principles of equity and inclusivity into their state plans on aging.

Medicaid 64

Medicaid Nursing Accountability Integration 64

Home Health Care

JUNE 15, 2022

“A lot of what we do is looking backwards so that we can look to the future, because we can’t really move forward until we know exactly what we’re dealing with,” Jennifer Schiller, the executive director of the Research Institute for Home Care said at Home Health Care News’ VALUE event last week. “I

Home Care 82

Home Care Integration Regulations Patient Experience 82

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.

Medicaid 52

Medicaid Medicare Accountability Nursing 52

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

Home Care 89

Home Care Hospitals Regulations Accountability 89

Home Health Care

MAY 3, 2023

In terms of the main provisions, the proposed rule for hospice doesn’t contain a large number of policy changes this year, according to Theresa Forster, vice president of hospice at the National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC). That is, of course, a proposed element.

Medicare 81

Medicare Home Care Integration Medicaid 81

NASHP

DECEMBER 10, 2021

The information on this map comes from a 50-state survey of a variety of stakeholders, ranging from Medicaid officials to Community Health Workers, on their states’ approaches?to?integrating?CHWs integrating?CHWs ACO Accountable Care Organizations. MCO Managed Care Organizations. MCE Managed Care Entities.

Medicaid 122

Medicaid Primary Care Prevention Nursing 122

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.

Medicaid 121

Medicaid Nursing Regulations Integration 121

Home Health Care

MAY 12, 2022

The appointment followed reports that Colorado’s Department of Health Care Policy and Financing and the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) stopped reimbursing InnovAge for new clients. InnovAge’s plan to remediate and transform — which the company has dubbed “One InnovAge” — has three key dimensions.

Quality of Care 52

Quality of Care Regulations Medicaid Home Care 52

NASHP

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

This map highlights state activity to integrate CHWs into evolving health care systems in key areas such as financing, education and training, certification, and state definitions, roles and scope of practice. Medicaid Reimbursement. Medicaid Reimbursement.

Medicaid 52

Medicaid Primary Care Prevention Nursing 52

NASHP

MARCH 22, 2024

It includes examples from various states organized by the framework buckets: integrated primary and behavioral health care, crisis continuum of care, in-home and in-community based, and out-of-home and community.

Medicaid 52

Medicaid Integration Primary Care Nursing 52

Health Populi

MAY 20, 2020

Payors, both commercial and public sector (Medicare, Medicaid), have relaxed rules and regulations for telehealth across platforms (from purpose-built telemedicine programs to HIPAA-relaxed approvals for using FaceTime, Zoom, and other commercial channels), and have various plans to pay for virtual care visits between clinicians and patients.

Telemedicine 77

Telemedicine Hospitals Doctors Prevention 77

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.”

Nursing 105

Nursing Medicaid Accountability Home Care 105

NASHP

MARCH 28, 2022

State Medicaid-funded long-term services and supports (LTSS) systems are not well-positioned to compete for this shrinking pool of workers. The shortage of direct care workers undermines a state’s ability to serve people with disabilities in the most integrated setting appropriate to a person’s needs and preferences.

Nursing 98

Nursing Medicaid Home Care Rehabilitation 98

Home Health Care

JULY 21, 2022

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released its first ever home- and community-based services (HCBS) quality measures Thursday. The measures are build around three pillars: access, a rebalancing of HCBS spend versus institutional care spend and community integration.

Medicaid 109

Medicaid Home Care Integration Medicare 109

NASHP

MAY 20, 2022

Although states can promote family caregiver services through licensure, regulation, and outreach, the most powerful policy lever that states have to increase access is funding key services and supports. Medicaid is the largest source of public funding that can be leveraged to support family caregivers.

Medicaid 115

Medicaid Nursing Hospitals Home Care 115

Home Health Care

JANUARY 6, 2023

Over the past few years, the number of existing home health agencies has steadily decreased. In 2020, there were 9,378 agencies, compared to 9,893 in 2019 and 10,852 in 2014, according to the Research Institute for Home Care’s 2022 Home Care Chartbook. There are a number of factors that suggest this will continue.

Medicare 105

Medicare Home Care Hospitals Nursing 105

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.

Home Care 98

Home Care Accountability Regulations Medicaid 98

Home Health Care

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

The reality of the funding aspect of Medicaid does not make it easy to run a business and to serve all the people that need to be served,” Mollie Gurian, VP of home-based and HCBS policy at LeadingAge, said at the organization’s annual conference in Chicago on Monday. In managed care, many providers don’t have a voice.

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Medicaid Quality of Care Regulations Medicare 89

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 Care Integration Medicare Accountability 52