Home Health Care

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Direct care workers are, in many ways, the collective face of home-based care organizations. Therefore, regulators and providers are increasingly taking a closer look at who they’re hiring in the first place. To combat this trend, increased vetting is essential when hiring individuals to care for seniors in their homes.

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Home Health Care

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

This article is a part of your HHCN+ Membership At some point in their lives, most Americans will need some type of in-home care support. The issue is that — due to the caregiver shortage, the rising cost of care, Medicaid qualifications and a number of other factors — many of them won’t be able to afford it.

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Home Health Care

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Mostly, though, the Obama-era regulation has ended up decreasing the amount of live-in care that home care agencies provide. Live-in care used to be a less expensive way of getting 24-hour care,” Georgetown Home Care (GHC) CEO John Bradshaw told Home Health Care News.

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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

"The pandemic winding down is great from a public health standpoint, but we know Congress doesn't want to just open the floodgates" with no virtual care regulations. The coalition's perspective, he said, is that regulators should "put guardrails on, but let us continue the good work."

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Home Health Care

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

One way to do so would be by mirroring the regulatory model state Medicaid programs use for home- and community-based services. The report suggests that the Medicaid model is the answer. Medicaid] has always kind of relied on that regulated agency model that the states have kind of set up around caregivers entering the home.

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Home Health Care

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Policy and regulations for home care haven’t kept pace with the growing demand for services and the overall increased visibility of the sector. In terms of the type of care seniors prefer, services that allow them to age in place for as long as possible are overwhelmingly popular.

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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

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Empirical evidence suggests that hospital-at-home care is safe and effective. Anecdotal evidence suggests that the model is still not nearly as widespread as it should be, however, with patients regularly asking their health care providers about the option. Medical care in the home is inherently a team sport,” Shulman said. “In

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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. “So

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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

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

With more eyes than ever on the home care industry, experts are trying to read the tea leaves to determine if greater standardization will eventually follow. Once considered the “youngest kid” in the larger health care continuum, home care has been ushered into the spotlight over the past couple of years.

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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

AUGUST 16, 2022

The convener platform healthAlign has a front-row seat to see how home care is being utilized in Medicare Advantage (MA). We have pretty good insight into what you see take place over a period of time when these public policy changes occur,” Friedell said at HHCN’s Home Care Conference last December.

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Home Health Care

JANUARY 19, 2022

But that shouldn’t deter MA interest for home-based care providers, Andy Friedell, the founder and CEO of healthAlign, said at the Home Health Care News Home Care Conference in December. . “We healthAlign is a convener of home-based care services.

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Home Health Care

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Before other states start to consider minimum wage increases for home care workers, it would be beneficial for them to understand what has – and hasn’t – gone well in New York. In the spring of 2022, New York legislators passed a law that gave home care workers an extra $1 per hour above the state’s $15 minimum wage.

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Home Health Care

AUGUST 9, 2022

Two large private equity firms have made under-the-radar investments in the self-directed, at-home care enabler Public Partnerships (PPL). Those caregivers, then, are generally paid out by state Medicaid programs. On the backers’ side, DW Healthcare generally invests in mid- to late-stage companies in the health care space.

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Home Health Care

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

The Home Care Association of America (HCAOA) is backing home care-focused legislation introduced by Vice President-elect J.D. It would also require the Secretary of Health and Human Services to move to establish national quality standards of care for these services. Vance (R-OH) and Senator Maggie Hassan (D-NH).

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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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NASHP

JUNE 30, 2023

During the COVID-19 public health emergency (PHE), states instituted Appendix K amendments to 1915(c) home-and community-based waivers and 1115 demonstration waivers to ensure that Medicaid beneficiaries were able to receive needed services during the pandemic. Information was collected between May 9 and June 23, 2023.

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Home Health Care

MAY 11, 2023

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recent proposed rule for Medicaid may cap business for certain providers , but industry experts believe the government agency is likely foreshadowing its intentions for the final rule. Industry advocates do not believe the 80% threshold will stand in the final rule. “I

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Home Health Care

AUGUST 14, 2023

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) – which would require at least 80% of Medicaid reimbursement for home- and community-based services go toward worker compensation – received over 2,100 submissions during its public comment period. A proposed rule from the U.S.

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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

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

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

This article is based on a Home Health Care News discussion with Gary Bachrach, Executive Director of Business Development, Home Care Services at The Joint Commission and Vicki Hoak, Chief Executive Officer at HCAOA. The discussion took place on November 16, 2022, during the HHCN Home Care Conference in Chicago.

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Home Health Care

MARCH 24, 2022

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) in a lawsuit filed Friday. The plaintiffs in the case are Safe Haven Home Care Inc., Angel Care Inc., Elim Home Care Agency and DHCare Homehealth Inc. The plaintiffs in the case are Safe Haven Home Care Inc., Angel Care Inc.,

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Home Health Care

APRIL 28, 2023

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) proposed a new rule that would make major changes to the way that home care workers are compensated under Medicaid. The Frisco, Texas-based Addus currently provides home-based care services to approximately 46,500 consumers through 202 locations across 22 states.

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Home Health Care

JULY 22, 2024

As home health providers continue to digest the proposed payment rule for 2025 , National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC) President William A. They weren’t understanding how any margin [providers] got was subsidizing other government programs like Medicaid and Medicare Advantage. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.),

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Home Health Care

APRIL 9, 2024

President Joe Biden made remarks on the care economy – including home care – in a speech Tuesday at Union Station in Washington, D.C. You know, take home care,” he said. The cost of long-term care for aging loved ones and people with disabilities rose 40% in the last decade. It’s amazing. Think about it.”

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NASHP

OCTOBER 22, 2021

Supporting the Continuum of Care for Serious Illness in Medicaid Managed Care October 25, 2021 / by Salom Teshale, Kitty Purington, Wendy Fox-Grage, and Mia Antezzo. Comprehensive care coordination. billion on chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) per year. Assessment and management of pain and other symptoms.

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Home Health Care

OCTOBER 27, 2023

“Minnesota has long taken pride in doing very well in providing care for Minnesotans, whether it be the older adults or people with disabilities, so I think we have continued to work on that,” Kathy Messerli, executive director at the Minnesota Home Care Association, told Home Health Care News. “I

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Home Health Care

JANUARY 31, 2024

The Medicare enrollment process undergoes annual changes at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to ensure it remains up to date with evolving regulations, policies and health care practices. 1, and several of them will affect home health agencies. A number of changes went into effect on Jan.

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Home Health Care

MARCH 27, 2023

For the first time ever, two of the largest associations representing the home-based care industry have joined together on a call to action regarding the workforce shortage. Higher prices for care would then lead to more need for Medicaid support, something policymakers would have no choice but to pay attention to.

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NASHP

MAY 26, 2023

Respite care is a service typically delivered in the home or a facility-based setting that provides short-term relief for caregivers. It is one of the most desired caregiver services , and Medicaid is one policy lever to fund it. nursing home) to receive long-term care services in their home and community.

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Home Health Care

APRIL 12, 2024

In past years, Medicare-certified home health agencies and Medicaid personal care services providers have been big focus areas for government watchdogs. While there’s still plenty of oversight, the spotlight on home health and personal care providers appears to have dimmed somewhat. billion in claims.

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Home Health Care

MAY 4, 2023

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) latest proposed rule , which includes a provision that would require at least 80% of Medicaid payments to go toward compensation for personal care workers. The heightened attention on personal care services leads to necessary sophistication, oversight and regulation.

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Home Health Care

JULY 25, 2024

The suit alleges that the DOH made unlawful changes to how Medicaid reimburses companies that administer the Consumer Directed Personal Assistant Program (CDPAP), which allows patients to hire and train their own in-home care providers. This comes after New York Gov.

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