Home Health Care

JANUARY 23, 2024

Drawing parallels between the intentions of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and the narrative of a Charles Dickens novel is an uncommon venture. However, the metaphor is there for the taking when it comes to potential Medicaid policy. The image of home care is something that needs to be improved.

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Home Health Care

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Despite projections, low wages and other challenges continue to plague the workforce, further compounding the recruitment and retention issues seen across the home-based care space. That’s the key takeaway from a recent report from PHI, a New York-based direct care workers advocacy organization that conducts research and analysis.

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Home Health Care

JANUARY 29, 2024

Home care leaders are not just operating in their own individual bubbles. These leaders are part of a larger ecosystem of organizations that make up the home-based care space. In a sea of providers, the best leaders are the ones who are able to recognize which of their home-based care peers are standouts.

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Home Health Care

JUNE 17, 2024

This article is a part of your HHCN+ Membership The Medicaid Access Rule has been heralded by home care providers as a mostly good rule with one misguided piece: the 80-20 provision. Billing rates have already soared in private-pay home care since the COVID-19 pandemic, which has forced providers to get creative.

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Home Health Care

JULY 29, 2024

Medicaid home- and community-based services (HCBS) vary by state, in many ways. a keen understanding of the different ways state Medicaid agencies pay for services. Broadly, Medicaid is a state and federal partnership. Terzaghi noted that these problems eventually led to the “Ensuring Access to Medicaid Services” rule.

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Home Health Care

OCTOBER 24, 2024

To combat this trend, increased vetting is essential when hiring individuals to care for seniors in their homes. Background checks help home care agencies screen prospective caregivers before hiring them. Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania-based Visiting Angels is a nationwide provider of home care services. “In

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Home Health Care

APRIL 22, 2024

The “Ensuring Access to Medicaid Services” rule has been finalized. Most importantly, the bemoaned “80-20” provision has gone through as proposed, meaning providers will eventually be forced to direct 80% of reimbursement for home- and community-based services (HCBS) to caregiver wages.

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Home Health Care

DECEMBER 18, 2024

The report emphasizes that this decades-long workforce crisis has affected community-based services due to long-term underinvestment in Medicaid, which has hindered community-based providers from offering wages that are competitive with those in hourly wage industries.

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Home Health Care

JULY 17, 2024

New York home care advocates scored a major win when lawmakers passed a budget that included a $7.7 billion investment in a higher minimum wage for home care workers. New York is a state with a rapidly growing home care workforce. New York is a state with a rapidly growing home care workforce.

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Home Health Care

OCTOBER 24, 2024

LiveWell Partners recently acquired Hope Home Care, an Ohio-based home health provider. The deal is one of many finalized in recent weeks, reflecting a strengthened M&A environment in home-based care. On its end, Hope Home Care is a Medicare-certified home health provider that is based in Miamisburg, Ohio.

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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

MARCH 28, 2022

Dozens of provider organizations in Michigan have gone out of business — and more are at risk of the same fate — due to the state legislature’s decision to cut the rates of home care and residential caregivers by 45%. That caused reimbursement to be below the cost needed to sustain an employee to provide care.

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Home Health Care

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Most Americans will need some sort of in-home care support as they age. To age in place, seniors either need to be completely independent or have some sort of personal care afforded to them. If they qualify for Medicaid, home- and community-based services are an option. And it’s 50% margin.

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Home Health Care

OCTOBER 22, 2024

That’s a phrase that should be hung up on home health providers’ walls across the country, according to Pinnacle Home Care CEO Shane Donaldson. There’s traditional Medicare rate cuts, Medicare Advantage (MA) penetration, staffing shortages and regulatory challenges in the home health market.

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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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Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 14, 2021

" Key to moving forward will be a delivery model through the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Innovation Center that will enable testing and implementation of a long-term advanced care at home framework. Parodi also flagged the patient satisfaction component: "We're consistently running at 4.95

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Home Health Care

OCTOBER 10, 2024

An indictment was unsealed on Wednesday in Brooklyn, New York, charging eight defendants with allegedly scheming to defraud Medicaid of approximately $68 million. This was done through the operation of two social adult day care organizations and a home care financial intermediary that paid kickbacks and bribes for services not provided.

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Home Health Care

JANUARY 29, 2024

The company continued to steadily grow as it doubled down on value-based care efforts as a strategic partner in the post-acute space. It was also able to take advantage of the dollars that were being funneled into the in-home care space during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic. In June 2020, the company landed $135.8

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Home Health Care

APRIL 23, 2024

BrightStar Care has built a reputation as one of the home care industry’s innovators. Past examples of the home care franchise company’s pioneering spirit include its investment in small-home senior living residences and its educational partnership with Chamberlain University.

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Home Health Care

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

have set their sights on lifting age-based restrictions in the Medicaid buy-in program. Their proposed legislation has the potential to widen the addressable market for home care providers. On Wednesday, the policymakers introduced the Ensuring Access to Medicaid Buy-In Programs Act. Bob Casey (D-Penn.)

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Home Health Care

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

The report found that 53% of Medicaid long-term services and support spending for seniors and adults with physical disabilities went to home- and community-based services. Plus, 12 states spent the majority of Medicaid long-term services and support funding on home- and community-based services. North Carolina 42.

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Home Health Care

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) Acute Hospital Care at Home waiver was a major boost for organizations hoping to implement or expand hospital-at-home programs. 21 2023, 305 hospitalsand 129 systems in 37 states have been approved to provide hospital-at-home care under the CMS waiver program.

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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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Home Health Care

APRIL 16, 2024

In 2023, there were 7 Medicaid home care transactions, which was the same amount of deals that took place the previous year. The post Recent Monetary Policy Updates Could Create Choke-Hold On Home Health, Home Care Dealmaking appeared first on Home Health Care News.

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Home Health Care

APRIL 27, 2023

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) on Thursday announced a new proposed rule that would, among its provisions, establish a strict requirement for the amount of Medicaid payment going toward home care worker compensation. Currently, demand for HCBS far exceeds service supply from providers.

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Home Health Care

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Last month when Public Partnerships LLC (PPL) was awarded the fiscal intermediary contract in New York, it was also announced that the financial management services company would work with a network of home care agencies as part of the agreement. All Metro Health Care, BestCare Inc., Community Home Care Inc.,

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Home Health Care

APRIL 20, 2023

When Medicare Advantage (MA) plans began offering expanded supplemental benefits, it opened the door for more engagement with home care providers. Flashforward to 2023, and nearly a quarter of plans are offering some level of in-home support services. That’s according to Tyler Overstreet Cromer, principal at the Washington, D.C.-based

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Home Health Care

MAY 3, 2024

This article is a part of your HHCN+ Membership When the “Ensuring Access to Medicaid Services” rule was finalized last week, the 80-20 provision stole the show, due to its unpopularity among home-based care leaders. But experts have pointed out that the rule is much more than just the 80-20 provision.

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Home Health Care

MAY 28, 2024

One of the faster-growing home care providers in the country is non-franchised and has taken no private equity funding to date. With over 60 locations now spanning 19 states, the company’s goal is to serve as many seniors in need of home care as possible, no matter the area or the payer.

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Home Health Care

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Coming out of COVID-19, multiple home care franchise systems are really beginning to rev their growth engines again. That will likely be a theme in the broader home care industry this year. One, in particular, is FirstLight Home Care. But we also have to know when to say no.”

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Home Health Care

OCTOBER 1, 2024

This week, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) published a report on a study of its Acute Hospital Care at Home (AHCAH) program. This program permits specific Medicare-certified hospitals to provide inpatient-level care to patients in their homes.

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Home Health Care

MARCH 12, 2024

The pricing increases in home care have again outpaced other long-term care sectors, according to Genworth’s (NYSE: GNW) annual cost of care report. In 2023, the cost of a home care aide increased by 10% to an annual median cost of over $75,000, according to Genworth. .”

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Home Health Care

APRIL 22, 2024

The White House teased the finalized Medicaid Access Rule early Monday, and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) later revealed more intricate details attached to the rule. I think disappointed is probably a better word,” National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC) President William A.

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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

JUNE 18, 2024

Nurses of Mass General Brigham’s hospital-at-home program have voted to unionize, and the clinicians at the health system’s home care segment are hoping to follow suit. On May 16, 80 of the health system’s home-at-hospital nurses voted to join the Massachusetts Nurse Association (MSA).

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Home Health Care

AUGUST 7, 2023

At its core, Best of Care is a family business. But that hasn’t stopped the Quincy, Massachusetts-based personal home care agency from thinking big and evolving. Best of Care has over 400 home care aides, administrative staff, care managers, nurses and move managers. Now, you have this healthy mix.

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Home Health Care

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Two senators introduced a bill Thursday that would create a pilot program aimed at expanding the scope of hospital-at-home care in the U.S. Dubbed the At Home Observation and Medical Evaluation (HOME) Services Act, the bill was introduced specifically by Sens. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) and Tom Carper (D-Del.). As of Feb.

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