Home Health Care

DECEMBER 7, 2023

While home care providers are working to mitigate headwinds – such as the rising cost of delivering care and staffing challenges – they also have their eye on where the industry goes from here. As 2024 approaches, home care leaders are embracing AI, alternative payer sources, employee-centric solutions and much more.

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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

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Sampson noted that receiving clarity from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) regarding the 80/20 rule would also strengthen these tailwinds. This includes fostering member engagement through our innovative care center and virtual front door services and devices,” Sampson said.

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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

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

DECEMBER 19, 2022

What started out as a very segmented industry is becoming more integrated, as larger companies acquire smaller ones in hopes to have more pieces of the care continuum puzzle in house. McCauley said the specialization of health care in the U.S. has actually helped the home-based care industry.

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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 6, 2024

This article is a part of your HHCN+ Membership One of the publicity issues home-based care faces is that most people dont even understand the difference between home health care and home care, much to the chagrin of industry veterans in both sectors. Each care type can augment the other, they believe.

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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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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

JUNE 9, 2022

Yet onehome, a home-focused post-acute care organization that operates under a full-risk model, is just as important to the Louisville, Kentucky-based health insurer’s in-home care strategy. There is a tremendous need for a care model that provides high quality, fully-integrated care in the home at reduced cost.”.

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Healthcare It News

AUGUST 29, 2024

"She has been a key contributor to the advancement of digital health in the nursing profession and played a pivotal role in the future of the Australian healthcare system as a member of the Strengthening Medicare Taskforce," ADHA CEO Amanda Cattermole said about Booth in a statement.

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Home Health Care

OCTOBER 23, 2023

In this Voices Interview, Home Health Care News sits down with Kris Novak, Managing Director, Home Health, Home Care and Hospice, The Braff Group, to share the lessons he’s learned as a buyer of home health and hospice agencies that every seller should know.

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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

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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Home Health Care

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Brent Korte was the chief home care officer at the Washington-based EvergreenHealth Home Care for more than eight years. During that time, it went all the way from a home health agency that was a financial drag on a hospital system to the point where it was an integral part of it. Why Dallas, to start.

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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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Home Health Care

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Meeting the care needs of Medicaid/dual-eligibles now and beyond 2025 will provide opportunities for home care and the health care industry to enhance care services supported by emerging technology and care innovations.

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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

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

AUGUST 13, 2024

Before retiring at the end of year, National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC) President William A. On the top of this list is the previously announced NAHC and National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO) merger. Their forecast says it’s about community-based health care services.”

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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

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

AUGUST 19, 2024

This article is a part of your HHCN+ Membership Home health providers have lately been hamstrung by payment rate cuts , staffing woes and Medicare Advantage (MA) penetration. Dombi, president of the National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC). This calls for staff that is currently in short supply.

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Home Health Care

AUGUST 23, 2022

BrightStar Owned will expand our reach, make home care more attainable, and increase the client populations we can serve across a diverse payer mix.”. BrightStar Care is a Chicago-based home care and medical staffing franchise. BrightStar Care got its start with a handful of company-owned locations in 2002.

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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

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

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

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

OCTOBER 6, 2021

SCAN Health Plan is launching a new care delivery model that it hopes will set a new standard within the Medicare Advantage (MA) space. A subsidiary of SCAN Group, the Long Beach, California-based SCAN Health Plan announced its new model of care on Wednesday. So this definitely can serve patients living in their own homes.

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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

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 10, 2024

At a time when many home care providers are shutting the door on Medicare Advantage (MA), Avid Health at Home has managed to go the other way. Avid Health at Home is a home care platform backed by Havencrest Capital. Can you talk a little bit about the payment structure at Avid Health at Home?

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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

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

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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