Healthcare It News

AUGUST 29, 2022

Employees using Galileo avoid more expensive visits to in-person specialty, urgent or ER care 80% of the time. More than 85% of patients report improved health after receiving care from Galileo. From there, we established partnerships with both regional and national health plans to offer virtual-first care to their members.

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Home Health Care

MAY 8, 2023

“The outstanding depth of his experiences and accomplishments as a leader within a variety of nonprofit and academic health care settings makes him the ideal person to lead Hebrew SeniorLife in its mission to empower seniors to live their best lives.” Nasdaq: MODV). PopHealthCare names new COO PopHealthCare has named Jill Langenfeld as COO.

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Home Health Care

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Are they participating in co-management of these patients and families, who are living with serious illness, or are they assuming some sort of primary care role in providing palliative care?” For home- and community-based palliative care providers, this variability can be an advantage. “It

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Home Health Care

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

This article is a part of your HHCN+ Membership Home-based care providers avoiding the shift to value-based care are running out of time and excuses. Home health providers are already under the Home Health Value-Based Purchasing (HHVBP) Model, which is, by definition, a value-based care model.

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Home Health Care

AUGUST 2, 2023

HUM (NYSE) leaders say the investments they’ve made in value-based payment models and at-home care capabilities continue to pay off. It continues to leverage its home health engine – CenterWell Home Health – to deliver on those value-based care initiatives. “In Humana Inc.

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Home Health Care

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Care coordination has become a buzzy term in home-based care of late. Generally, care coordination aims to both connect home care to the broader health care ecosystem and close gaps in care for the patients. Help at Home has also put a priority on caregiver empowerment and engagement.

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Home Health Care

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Care coordination with other important social determinant drivers – like personal care, transportation, meals delivery and physical activity, as well as clinical care coordination with the health system, primary care doctors and emergent referral sources for quality and timeliness of care, will all be important in the upcoming year.

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Home Health Care

JUNE 6, 2024

On its end, CommonSpirit Health at Home is headquartered in Milford, Ohio. It offers specialized home care, home infusion, hospice and medical transportation services nationwide. The company is the home-based care arm of health system CommonSpirit Health.

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Home Health Care

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has stated its objective to enroll all of its Medicare beneficiaries in accountable care relationships by 2030. Amid the pandemic, the company approached CMS about expanding at-home care services, for instance. “We Currently, roughly 13.2 We have these conversations.”

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Home Health Care

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Many people still consider home health and home care as sectors completely separate from hospital-at-home care. As more care comes into the home, home-based care organizations are finding ways to become involved – whether through partnerships or proprietary programs. Nasdaq: AMED).

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Home Health Care

JULY 3, 2024

The urgent care service line will be added to Lifespark COMPLETE, Lifespark’s value-based population health business. The Minnesota-based company provides home health, home care, hospice, primary care and senior living, among other services. Those services are offered to a wide range of patients.

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Home Health Care

APRIL 5, 2022

When Walgreens Boots Alliance (Nasdaq: WBA) invested $1 billion into VillageMD , it was largely viewed as a way for Walgreens to enhance its primary care approach, especially in underserved communities. And then we also made an investment in CareCentrix that really focuses the post-acute care episode of a patient’s journey.”.

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Home Health Care

FEBRUARY 11, 2023

This article is a part of your HHCN+ Membership Best of Care diversifies offerings through latest acquisition The Boston-based Best of Care is the latest home care provider to diversify its offerings through acquisition. In 2018, it also began providing concierge-level care management. in seed funding.

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HIT Consultant

AUGUST 5, 2022

Policymakers are recognizing the need for payers to increase coverage and reimbursement for integrated behavioral health services, which entails primary care and behavioral health collaboration, to achieve better clinical and cost outcomes along with a healthier workforce.

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Home Health Care

DECEMBER 15, 2022

One of the largest Medicaid health plans in the country is teaming up with one of the most successful home-based care startups to serve around 40,000 members in Texas. On Thursday, the Texas-based Superior HealthPlan announced a home health partnership with MedArrive. But that’s certainly just the starting point.

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Home Health Care

JANUARY 2, 2024

The company delivers in-home care by combining Medicare Advantage coverage with its virtual and in-home care provider — Devoted Medical — as well as partnerships with other home health providers.

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HIT Consultant

JUNE 13, 2024

However, rural residents were more open to entirely remote primary care (36%) compared to urban counterparts (19%). The waivers introduced by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) in response to COVID-19, allowing for in-home hospital-level care, are set to expire at the end of 2024.

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GoMoHealth

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

GoMo Health CEO and Chief Behavioral Technologist Bob Gold was featured in the Invest NJ 2022 North & Central Jersey report discussing the future of healthcare and the shift to at-home care models. Demand for At-Home Care Accelerated Due to COVID-19 Pandemic.

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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.

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Home Health Care

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Los Angeles-based Heal is among the in-home primary care providers working to “bring back the house call” in modern medicine. Launched in 2014 by husband-and-wife team Dr. Renee Dua and Nick Desai, Heal started out as an on-demand primary care company serving the general public instead of a targeted patient population. “We

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NASHP

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

State Strategies Washington Evaluations Support Development of First-in-the-Nation Innovations in HCBS Washington State has long been a leader in using evaluations and data to refine and drive improvements in its home and community-based programs. The state evaluated the impact of expanding its family caregiver support program in 2012.

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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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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Geisinger plans to open more clinics for primary care, senior care, and convenient/retail care. Virtual first and direct primary care for faster on-ramps to care. patients still delaying care is lack of easy access to primary care , especially risky for patients dealing with chronic conditions.

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Home Health Care

MAY 17, 2024

Together, the two organizations formed the Parker Advanced Care Institute at VNAHG, a home-based primary care joint venture. As part of the collaboration, the organizations offer physician services and palliative care at home, serving 6,000 patients annually. We’re overseeing that care.

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Home Health Care

JUNE 13, 2023

What’s troubling is what they’re able to do that traditional home-based care providers may not be doing, Chapters Health System President and CEO Andrew Molosky said Tuesday during a panel discussion at the Home Care Innovation + Investment Conference in Chicago.

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Home Health Care

JANUARY 31, 2023

This is because most of the biggest issues have already been addressed by Congress and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). There’s a lot of pieces that are still missing related to home infusion, home dialysis, home-based primary care, home-based imaging, home-based labs and even Medicare personal care services.

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Home Health Care

JANUARY 4, 2023

As in-home care providers look to use a more integrated approach to care, it’s critical to some that mental and behavioral health is part of the equation. Despite the added costs that come with offering those services, the need to care for patients with those ailments is undeniable.

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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 ACO Accountable Care Organizations. MCO Managed Care Organizations. MCE Managed Care Entities. MHP Medicaid Health Plans.

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Home Health Care

JANUARY 3, 2024

He specifically led Kindred’s home health, hospice, home care and home-based primary care businesses. Mike McMaude, meanwhile, leads BrightSpring’s home health and hospice services segment. BrightSpring noted that its home health census grew by approximately 9% from September 2022 to September 2023.

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Home Health Care

DECEMBER 14, 2022

They were first described to Jain as “a lot like SCAN, but in Medicaid.” Conversations with leaders at CareOregon progressed over the months and years – conversations that felt like “talking cousins,” Jain told Home Health Care News. Welcome Health, a primary care unit that provides virtual and in-home visits.

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Home Health Care

DECEMBER 20, 2023

It also has a number of care-at-home programs under its roof, including home health care, primary care, hospital at home and more. Intermountain’s hospital-at-home program is available for eligible patients who live near 16 Intermountain hospitals in Utah.

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Home Health Care

AUGUST 31, 2022

Help at Home Help adds chief human resources officer. The Chicago-based personal home care company Help at Home has named Lisa George as its new chief human resources officer. Help at Home has more than 190 locations across 12 states and employs nearly 50,000 caregivers. Empath Health beefs up legal team.

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Home Health Care

AUGUST 8, 2022

CVS Health has been overt about its efforts to reach further into the home; it has been targeting traditional home health agencies, and it was reportedly interested in primary care provider One Medical (Nasdaq: ONEM). It additionally provides at-home evaluations, usually on behalf of Medicare Advantage plans.

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Home Health Care

JULY 7, 2023

Harris: I’m a primary care physician — I did the med school, business school combo. I ran the Medicaid program in Massachusetts and also led the health care team in the White House Office of Management and Budget. What are some of the care delivery advantages of the PACE model? I spent some time doing consulting.

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Home Health Care

AUGUST 24, 2021

“The takeaway right now is to start preparing for the potential implementation because if this doesn’t pass, then there may be other attempts at the state level to require health care providers to vaccinate their home care workers,” Emina Poricanin, managing attorney of Poricanin Law, told Home Health Care News.

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Home Health Care

JANUARY 20, 2022

As a result of the COVID-19 emergency, there has been an increase in new home-based care models such as SNF at home and, most notably, hospital at home. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) introduced its “ Acute Hospital Care At Home ” waiver program in 2020.

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Home Health Care

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Trade groups, providers and individuals have always advocated on behalf of the home health and home care sectors. Not many fight for legislative and regulatory causes as much as the National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC). 1 priority remains the Choose Home Care Act of 2021.

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