HIT Consultant

JULY 9, 2024

What You Should Know: – HarmonyCares , a provider of value-based in-home longitudinal care, raises $200M to make its integrated, physician-led in-home care model available to more vulnerable patients nationwide. are already struggling to get the care they need,” said Matthew Chance, CEO of HarmonyCares.

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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

JUNE 20, 2023

This article is a part of your HHCN+ Membership In the broader at-home care space, Dr. Michael Le is considered an innovator. As the co-founder and former chief medical officer of Landmark Health, he was integral in helping build a company that would eventually catch the eye of UnitedHealth Group’s (NYSE: UNH) Optum.

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Home Health Care

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

That’s why, in Home Health Care News’ trends for 2024 , we included the prediction that “providers will find ways to more seamlessly and strategically integrate AI.” Alivia Care CEO Susan Ponder-Stansel is taking the same approach, but through a different lens. So that’s what we’re looking at.”

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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

DispatchHealth Raises $330M for Hospital-at-Home Care. DispatchHealth , a provider of in-home medical care raises $330M led by Optum Ventures with support from current investors such as Humana (NYSE: HUM), Oak HC/FT, Echo Health Ventures and Questa Capital. MEDITECH, SeamlessMD Collaborate on Digital Health Integration.

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Sheppard Health Law

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

2] The increasing demand for these services will also likely proportionally increase health care expenditures of LTSS. trillion spent on personal health care. [3] 3] Notably, the first and second largest payers of LTSS are Medicaid and Medicare, respectively, accounting for 64.1% billion was spent on LTSS. This represents 13.2%

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Home Health Care

DECEMBER 2, 2022

“That means there’s an 80% chance they’re gonna go back into the hospital, but with this knowledge, there might be things we can do to prevent this, whether that’s installing a grab bar in the bathroom, putting non stick mats in the bathroom to avoid slips, whether it’s moving things around in the home to prevent falls,” Ross said. “We

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Home Health Care

AUGUST 18, 2021

“The longer we go before a ‘post-pandemic health care,’ the more deeply integrated remote and home-based care will become.”. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) introduced its “Acute Hospital Care At Home” wavier program. Last year, the U.S. Senate in July.

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Home Health Care

JANUARY 11, 2022

Its major assets include subsidiary Aetna on the payer side, plus its pharmacy solutions and CVS HealthHUB network, the latter of which offers seniors a range of services, from preventative care to acute care. “No No health care company has ever had the collection of assets that we have,” Lynch continued.

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Home Health Care

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Medicare Advantage (MA) plans are increasingly delegating the management of their home health spend to conveners. With MA outpacing fee-for-service in growth, home health providers are increasingly trying to figure out how to best work with the MA subsection of their business. Paul Kusserow; President and CEO, Amedisys Inc.

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Home Health Care

JANUARY 4, 2023

This article is based on a Home Health Care News discussion with Hannah Luetke-Stahlman, Vice President of Solutions Management at WellSky, and Sheila Davis, Senior Vice President of Area Operations at Always Best Care. The discussion took place on November 16, 2022, during the HHCN Home Care Conference in Chicago.

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Home Health Care

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

The San Francisco-based in-home care startup has grown fairly rapidly since then, landing key partnerships with organizations like Cover Health (Nasdaq: CLOV) and a strategic investment from The SCAN Group. MedArrive is currently working with Bright’s newly enrolled Affordable Care Act (ACA) Medicare members. “A

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Home Health Care

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Right now, each sector is seeking relevance and control, along with defining its own slice of the health care dollar. The “build it and they will come” mentality of the inpatient brick-and-mortar hospitals and outpatient service centers has quickly been replaced with the home care-first mindset post-COVID.

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Home Health Care

MARCH 12, 2024

We covered everything from CenterWell Home Health’s growth objectives, to value-based care, to Medicare Advantage-home health relations. Telling home health care’s story HHCN Editor Andrew Donlan: You mentioned that Medicare Advantage is recognizing that home health care is driving a lot of savings.

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Home Health Care

JUNE 9, 2022

“We’re seeing a massive shift to value-based care versus our previous form of care, which was volume-based,” says Erika Sessions, director of compliance and policy development for online caregiver training platform CareAcademy. That will ultimately benefit the quality of care.”. This article is sponsored by CareAcademy.

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Briggs Healthcare

MARCH 1, 2022

The pandemic has highlighted the tragic impact of substandard conditions at nursing homes, which are home to many of our most at-risk community members. million people live in over 15,500 Medicare- and Medicaid-certified nursing homes across the nation. more likely to have a preventable emergency department visit and 8.7%

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Home Health Care

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Jennifer Gentzlinger: Just a little background, Premier is our at-home care organization primarily based in the New York market. They’ve identified a cohort of Medicaid-Medicare duals, duly managed under the health plan with diabetes and hypertension as two of their primary comorbidities.

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NASHP

OCTOBER 22, 2021

People with serious and life-threatening health conditions experience care needs that drive costs, including hospital admissions , emergency department utilization , and nursing home care. Rhode Island is another state that has invested in coordinated care for complex populations enrolled in Medicaid. The state and U.S.

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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.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

But a key limiting factor of these many sensors generating data has been inadequate backend algorithms that address signal noise and limited EHR integration, the authors observe. The proliferation of such wearable sensors and remote patient monitoring technologies helps set the technology stage for HaH.

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Home Health Care

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

The Medicare stars program actually outlines a number of those, and we want to hold ourselves to the same level of accountability in the home. Just like we would in a hospital, in the home. We’re looking for alternatives to be able to place our patients and keep them within the total care of our integrated system.

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Health Populi

MAY 20, 2020

“Delaying procedures, reducing spending on preventive care and chronic care, and decreasing adherence to medications may have negative long-term impacts on health status, although the extent is unknown,” PwC notes.

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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.

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Home Health Care

DECEMBER 19, 2021

Humana actually started out about 60 years ago as a nursing home company, and then transitioned to a hospital company, then an insurance company, which for the last couple of decades is how we know it. Specifically, an insurance company that is pretty deep in Medicare Advantage (MA). That’s true integration.

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NASHP

AUGUST 24, 2023

It is increasingly clear that any program’s ability to improve care value is critically reliant on targeting the right patients — not too many, not too few, but the right ones.” — Diane E. The state began implementation of palliative care legislation with an analysis of state Medicaid claims and encounter data.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 7, 2019

An important example of this self-care approach is the evidence-based Ornish food regimen which is reimbursed by Medicare (as a form of cardiac rehabilitation). Dr. Amy Serin developed the technology for preventing and treating PTSD for elite military. The innovation is now available for the consumer market.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 31, 2018

This has prevented them from being embraced and adopted for patients’ use by the medical profession, which has seen a plethora of patients wear activity trackers generating data that has been questioned in peer-reviewed studies.

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NASHP

MAY 20, 2022

Supporting family caregivers can be an effective rebalancing strategy, as the care they provide allows for a greater number of individuals to remain at home and in the community. Recent research indicates that unmet training needs of caregivers correlated to greater acute care utilization for Medicare home health beneficiaries.

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NASHP

JUNE 29, 2022

Currently, the main standardized national-level data source for state-level family caregiver information is the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)’s Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) Caregiver module. However, this module is optional for states, so information is not available for all states.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 18, 2021

Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, more hospitals were piloting and planning to move inpatient acute care to certain patients’ home when that made clinical and economic sense. The public health crisis, combined with Medicare Advantage and other payors’ regimes, supported an economic model for the hospital-to-home movement.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Financial stress is integral to overall health and well-being based on consumers’ own definition of “health.” Independence Blue Cross (IBX) announced an alliance with Quartet Health to integrate physical and mental health via digital platforms. enabling enrollees in Medicare and Medicaid to order fresh produce online.

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