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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MARCH 6, 2024

In 2023, Medicare Advantage (MA) plan members represented more than half of all Medicare beneficiaries for the first time. In 2024, while penetration continues, there are other trends within MA that home-based care providers should be paying attention to. UnitedHealth Group is directly involved in home health care.

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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. Those patients are more likely to be high utilizers of services compared to traditional Medicare home health beneficiaries. It also leverages a cloud-based infrastructure and a fully integrated EMR.

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Home Health Care

FEBRUARY 13, 2022

Like any regulations that home-based care agencies have been subjected to of late, it’s been hard for some providers to adjust and easier for others. Broadly, EVV applies to Medicaid-reimbursed home care providers. Managed care organization (MCO) choice, where MCOs select the vendor and cover most costs. “We

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Home Health Care

JANUARY 17, 2022

The end of 2021 brought a handful of key home health policy issues to a temporary conclusion, including the congressionally secured delay to Medicare sequestration. starting with Choose Home. Read on to learn more about: — The major policy and regulatory issues impacting home health and home care in 2022. —

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Home Health Care

DECEMBER 19, 2021

This year saw home care providers further build on the spotlight the public health emergency placed on the industry. As part of our annual tradition, Home Health Care News caught up with eight home care leaders to document their predictions on trends, challenges and opportunities for the coming year.

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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

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 24, 2021

And while home-based care has always been a part of the system’s integrated model, it now has its own division, “Care at Home,” underneath the massive brand’s umbrella. He believes that home-based care will be the reason why people are choosing Kaiser in the future. . 380 per year*. per member.

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Home Health Care

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Staffing shortages, rate cuts and Medicare Advantage penetration will continue to be trends in the home health market in 2024. Home health leaders are focused on mitigating margin compression, utilizing more technology, leveraging Artificial Intelligence, working smarter with MA plans and more in the new year. Those aren’t new.

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Home Health Care

OCTOBER 4, 2022

With the annual enrollment period just around the corner, Medicare Advantage (MA) organizations are starting to tout what benefits they’re offering seniors for the upcoming year. MA is a form of Medicare that is administered by private insurers. Medicare open enrollment runs from October 15 to December 7, 2022. Humana Inc.

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Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Minneapolis-based Allina Health, working with Flare Capital Partners, has launched a new company, Inbound Health, designed to help health systems and payers design and build hospital-at-home and home-based skilled nursing programs. WHY IT MATTERS. ON THE RECORD.

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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 Medicare wants to go the bundled route for making this permanent. know that all too well.

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Home Health Care

MAY 23, 2023

Nasdaq: AHCO), a home medical equipment (HME) provider. AdaptHealth will become the “capitated provider of durable HME and supplies” for at least one million Humana Medicare Advantage (MA) members in 33 states and the District of Columbia. The partnership is a part of Humana’s overarching home- and value-based long-term care strategy.

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Home Health Care

JUNE 20, 2024

“We have deep admiration for Hartford HealthCare and the commitment to home-based care it has long demonstrated through HHCAH,” Pennant CEO Brent Guerisoli said in a press statement. “We with a network that includes 113 home health and hospice agencies and 54 senior living communities.

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Home Health Care

JUNE 4, 2024

Home Health Care Solutions has new CEO Brad Harris has been appointed CEO of Home Health Care Solutions. Part of Miller’s Health System, Home Health Care Solutions is a diversified in-home care provider that delivers services across the majority of Indiana.

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Home Health Care

MARCH 1, 2024

The Medicare Advantage-focused home health provider Frontpoint Health has acquired High Plains Senior Care Group (HPSC), expanding its footprint considerably on the way. In the Dallas market, we are now one of the largest [home health] providers,” Korte said. It’s also taking an interesting approach to integration.

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Home Health Care

OCTOBER 12, 2021

With enrollment up and more plans launching each year, Medicare Advantage (MA) organizations have had to figure out how to differentiate themselves in an increasingly competitive field. For many, MA differentiation has meant embracing in-home care and actually acquiring, or investing in, provider partners.

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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. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS).

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Home Health Care

OCTOBER 4, 2023

This article is based on a Home Health Care News discussion with Lucas O’Connell, VP of Operations at AssuranceSD, Francesca Rinaldo, head of clinical strategy for home care at Sharecare, and Christina Andrews, senior director of professional services at Axxess. The article below has been edited for length and clarity.

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Home Health Care

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) due to its attempt to claw back billions of perceived overpayments from Medicare Advantage (MA) plans. With that said, we are committed to working productively with CMS to ensure the integrity of the program is maintained.” Humana operates one of the largest MA plans in the country.

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Home Health Care

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Now that the Louisville-based company is integrating Kindred at Home, it’s putting on a balancing act between what makes it money and where health care is going. What we’ve learned over the last number of years is that the home health industry does very much operate on a fee-for-service basis.

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Home Health Care

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Many are finding that home care benefits management is key. At BlueCross BlueShield of South Carolina, Integrated Home Care Services (IHCS) serves as the home care benefit administrator. IHCS has also formed strong connections with BlueCross BlueShield of South Carolina’s medical management staff.

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Home Health Care

JUNE 11, 2024

This article is a part of your HHCN+ Membership More home-based care providers have become curious about the benefits of artificial intelligence (AI), especially when it comes to its potential around easing clinician and caregiver workload and improving patient outcomes. Pinnacle Home Care wanted to make this process easier.

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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

JULY 31, 2023

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced a new voluntary nationwide dementia care model on Monday. Broadly, there’s three areas, in particular, where home-based care providers could potentially step in. Respite care is a primary service for many home care providers across the country.

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Home Health Care

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Founded in 2014, Honor is a home care technology company. It owns Home Instead, one of the largest home care franchises in the country. “We’re Free will specifically serve as senior vice president of operations for the Home Instead network. He serves as the board vice president at Abode Services.

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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

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Some home health providers find it useful and others find it to be yet another administrative burden. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) seems intent on expanding it. Broadly, the goal of RCD is to reduce improper billing in home health care. Either way, the U.S.

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Home Health Care

JULY 11, 2023

The company is additionally acquiring the Ohio-based Choice Nursing Care & Home Health. PurposeCare has set up branches across the Midwest, enabling these new acquisitions to more seamlessly integrate into the brand. Joseph, Michigan-based Home Sweet Home In-Home Care.

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Home Health Care

APRIL 15, 2024

Last week, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Innovation Center announced a new proposed model that will undoubtedly affect home health providers, and also allow them the opportunity to get more involved in value-based care initiatives. TEAM would be yet another model furthering that goal, if enacted.

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Home Health Care

JANUARY 23, 2023

Looking back at Congress’ role in improving home-based care workforce issues in 2022, the industry saw more of an “aspirational” year than a “productive” one. That’s according to Bill Dombi, president of the National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC).

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Home Health Care

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

To him and his leadership team, “burn the ships” is about rethinking home-based care delivery in a completely new environment – one with lots of challenges, but also opportunity. That is our mantra, burn the ships,” Herman told Home Health Care News. “So So we can redesign home care. Herman said. “If

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Home Health Care

MARCH 21, 2024

Waud Capital announced Thursday that it had acquired Senior Helpers – one of the largest home care companies in the country – for an undisclosed sum. That deal is intriguing for the rest of the personal care market for a few reasons, which we’ll get to below. Advocate Aurora merged with Atrium Health in December of 2022.

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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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Home Health Care

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Despite the hope that COVID-19’s effect on the world would wane in 2022, the year started with the highest case counts that home health and home care providers had seen, both among patients and staff. But as Home Health Care News’ top stories of the year suggest, COVID-19 did not define what went on in home-based care in 2022.

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Home Health Care

MARCH 31, 2023

Medicare fee-for-service rates are not where home health providers want them to be. We are payer agnostic, but we’re payer selective,” Traditions Health CEO David Klementz said Thursday at Home Health Care News’ Capital + Strategy event in Washington, D.C. As has the Home Health Value-Based Purchasing (HHVBP) Model.

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