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Home-Based Care Providers at Risk of Closing Amid Legislative Medicaid Changes

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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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Mass General Brigham’s Hospital-At-Home Nurses Unionize, Home Care Segment Moves To Follow Suit

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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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24 Hour Home Care Buys Non-Medical Division of Home Health ‘Bundling Expert’ GrandCare

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An example of the latter M&A tactic happened Wednesday, with 24 Hour Home Care buying the non-medical caregiving division of GrandCare Health Services. We thought it was a great opportunity,” Ryan Iwamoto, the president and co-founder of 24 Hour Home Care, told Home Health Care News. Mutual goals.

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Home-Based Care Leaders See M&A, New Payment, Technology As Biggest Opportunities For 2025

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This decrease in transaction volume over the past couple of years has resulted in a backlog of home care agencies looking to sell in the coming year, according to The LTM Group CEO David Kerns. The LTM Group, based in Dayton, Ohio, provides home health, personal care, hospice, and rehabilitation services through multiple locations.

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How CommonSpirit Reduced Medicare Spending by $136M

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Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). The overall goal of the program is to improve patient care and curb health care costs. Currently, CommonSpirit Health operates more than 1,000 care sites and 142 hospitals across 21 states.

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Despite Strong Bipartisan Support, Choose Home Facing Roadblocks

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Although Congressional support continues to grow for the Choose Home Care Act of 2021 in Washington, D.C., Other pieces of legislation for lawmakers have pushed the Choose Home bill down the priority list, but National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC) President William A.

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The Direct Care Workforce

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State Medicaid-funded long-term services and supports (LTSS) systems are not well-positioned to compete for this shrinking pool of workers. The COVID-19 pandemic has worsened these burdens, with the increased shortage of workers underscoring the critical role direct care workers play for the people they serve, as well as family caregivers.

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