Home Health Care

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Home care has become a crucial part of care plans for primary care providers (PCPs), according to a new value-based care report conducted by Humana (NYSE: HUM). The company has its own goal of having half of its Medicare Advantage (MA) members in a value-based home health model by 2027.

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Home Health Care

OCTOBER 13, 2023

It also has to think outside of the box for ways to support the people who need at-home care the most. Headquartered in Nashville, Tennessee, Clover Health is a technology-enabled Medicare Advantage (MA) insurer with its own in-house clinical capabilities. That’s what Clover Health (Nasdaq: CLOV) believes, at least.

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Home Health Care

JULY 31, 2024

A month in, he’s already tasked with facing tough questions, like how the company plans to combat regulatory headwinds in Medicare Advantage (MA) and home health care. Home health providers and MA plans have continually been at odds over payment for services. NYSE: HUM) on the first of July.

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Home Health Care

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

CVS Health (NYSE: CVS) believes that its home-based care and primary care capabilities will unlock value and create long-term earnings power for the company. And we said we needed to build out national provider capabilities either through primary care or in the home.” Walgreens has a U.S.

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Home Health Care

JULY 31, 2024

As part of that partnership, Rochester-based WellBe will provide care directly to the homes of 30,000 of Excellus BCBS’ most vulnerable Medicare Advantage members in upstate New York. The post In-Home Care Provider WellBe Senior Medical Adds Two Strategic Investors appeared first on Home Health Care News.

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Home Health Care

MARCH 30, 2023

With only a couple years under its belt since its launch, Patina Health – a Philadelphia, Pennsylvania-based home-focused primary care medical practice – has secured partnerships with multiple major health plans. Patina’s work with payers combines care coordination and primary care services for seniors.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

I’ll be referring to the research, with gratitude, over the coming months for my own work with clients spanning the health/care ecosystem. health care financing. healthcare spending, with curves moving up and to the right, and the Medicare Hospital Insurance Trust Fund moving into the opposite direction toward insolvency by 2033.

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Home Health Care

JULY 10, 2022

Thomas Cornwell, the senior medical director of Village Medical at Home, is living out his dream. He thought at-home care visits were going to tick up significantly as far back as 15 years ago, but that never really came to fruition. In terms of spreading home-based primary care, this is just a dream.”

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Home Health Care

MARCH 21, 2023

While many providers in the larger home-based care space have struggled with collecting data, MD at Home considers data utilization one of the pillars of its success. The Chicago-based at-home primary care provider has a proven track record of leveraging clinical data and enhancing the lives of its patients.

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Home Health Care

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

SCAN Group has entered into the in-home senior primary care space with the launch of Welcome Health. Dr. Scott Weingarten will serve as CEO of the independent primary care medical group moving forward. Welcome Health will care for predominantly Medicare Advantage patients,” Weingarten told Home Health Care News.

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Home Health Care

AUGUST 28, 2022

Johns Hopkins Home Care Group is attached to one of the top health systems and educational institutions in the country. It’s often a place where health care breakthroughs take place and new home-based care ideas are formed. How has home-based care advanced over the past few years, from your perspective?

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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. million Medicare fee-for-service beneficiaries are assigned to an ACO. Currently, roughly 13.2 We’d like to try it that way.’ We have these conversations.”

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Home Health Care

MAY 28, 2024

Helping these kinds of home-based care companies see success in these arrangements has become Integrated Home Care Services’ sweet spot as a driver of value-based care. I had started doing deals, or transactions, within the home care space, and I was introduced to someone within the home care sector.

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Home Health Care

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

In order to become less dependent on fee-for-service business, home health providers have begun to take on more risk. That has led to an emergence of risk-based home care models, many of which have given providers room to partake in upside and downside risk. These areas are chronic care management and preventative care.

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Home Health Care

AUGUST 12, 2022

More than ever, Medicare Advantage (MA) plans are stepping up and responding to the demand for more access to care in the home setting. This, in turn, has created an avenue for home-based care providers to lean into new opportunities.

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Home Health Care

MARCH 14, 2022

Half of the patients were treated at their homes and half were treated at a SNF. The pilot was similar to the one the same researchers performed about five years ago, which was the country’s first randomized control trial of hospital-level in-home care. Now we need to do the rest of the work to replicate it in a bigger sample.”.

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Home Health Care

JANUARY 11, 2022

In December, CVS Health (NYSE: CVS) shared its strategy for “revolutionizing” the consumer experience through its primary care, payer, digital and omnichannel health services offerings, including home health care. Its payer arm, Aetna, is similarly focused on the home. “I In its 2022 guidance released on Dec.

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Home Health Care

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Heidi Schwarzwald, chief medical officer at Signify Health Home and Community Services, told Home Health Care News. Of course with our Medicare Advantage population, that involves a large part of that population. You can prevent worsening complications, as well as remove barriers to access to care.”

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Home Health Care

AUGUST 13, 2024

This article is a part of your HHCN+ Membership The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) launched the Guiding an Improved Dementia Experience (GUIDE) Model on July 1, which aims to create more comprehensive, coordinated dementia care. Lifespark, headquartered in St.

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Home Health Care

AUGUST 19, 2024

This article is a part of your HHCN+ Membership Home health providers have lately been hamstrung by payment rate cuts , staffing woes and Medicare Advantage (MA) penetration. Dombi, president of the National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC). This calls for staff that is currently in short supply.

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Home Health Care

OCTOBER 4, 2022

With the annual enrollment period just around the corner, Medicare Advantage (MA) organizations are starting to tout what benefits they’re offering seniors for the upcoming year. MA is a form of Medicare that is administered by private insurers. Medicare open enrollment runs from October 15 to December 7, 2022. Humana Inc.

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Home Health Care

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Two months later, the at-home primary care provider has announced its first partnership, with Independence Blue Cross, to serve Medicare Advantage (MA) beneficiaries in Pennsylvania. Patina deploys primary care teams that conduct both in-person and virtual visits with patients.

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Home Health Care

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) unveiled a new state-focused demonstration model Tuesday. One of the model’s primary objectives is to shift health care spending and utilization more toward primary and community-based care. The Washington, D.C.-based

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Home Health Care

MARCH 27, 2024

Kang is the former CMO of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). The Chicago-based WellBe offers home-based medical care services to patients who are facing multiple complex health challenges. Home health agencies existed then, and it was covered by Medicare. I was at CMS from 1995 to 2002.

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Home Health Care

JUNE 9, 2022

Yet onehome, a home-focused post-acute care organization that operates under a full-risk model, is just as important to the Louisville, Kentucky-based health insurer’s in-home care strategy. We’ve got … mature and well-established value-based arrangements on the primary care side.

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Home Health Care

JULY 18, 2024

He will head up the company’s strategic initiatives around Medicare Advantage (MA), and a virtual home health model to support MA business. Bringing Jeff on board is a huge lift for New Day as we continue to ‘Burn the Ships’ and change the way home health care is delivered,” New Day CEO G.

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HIT Consultant

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

What You Should Know: – ConcertoCare , a value-based care provider of at-home care for seniors and other adults with unmet health and social needs raises $105M in Series B funding led by Wells Fargo Strategic Capital. At-Home Care Model to More Seniors with Unmet Health and Social Needs. Why It Matters.

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Home Health Care

MAY 23, 2023

Nasdaq: AHCO), a home medical equipment (HME) provider. AdaptHealth will become the “capitated provider of durable HME and supplies” for at least one million Humana Medicare Advantage (MA) members in 33 states and the District of Columbia. The partnership is a part of Humana’s overarching home- and value-based long-term care strategy.

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Home Health Care

DECEMBER 5, 2021

Jamie Sharp, chief medical officer for Aetna Medicare. “We’re We’re kind of assuming a new landscape for the delivery of health care and moving away from acute,” Sharp told Home Health Care News. “I million Medicare members nationwide. That’s what those care counselors are about,” Sharp said.

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Home Health Care

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Staffing shortages, rate cuts and Medicare Advantage penetration will continue to be trends in the home health market in 2024. Home health leaders are focused on mitigating margin compression, utilizing more technology, leveraging Artificial Intelligence, working smarter with MA plans and more in the new year. Those aren’t new.

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Home Health Care

OCTOBER 12, 2021

With enrollment up and more plans launching each year, Medicare Advantage (MA) organizations have had to figure out how to differentiate themselves in an increasingly competitive field. For many, MA differentiation has meant embracing in-home care and actually acquiring, or investing in, provider partners.

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Home Health Care

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Now, the Medicare Advantage insurer plans to expand its footprint to two additional states, opening new doors to potential home care partners in the process. Founded in 1977, Long Beach, California-based SCAN Health Plan is one of the nation’s largest not-for-profit Medicare Advantage plans, serving more than 220,000 members.

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Home Health Care

OCTOBER 11, 2023

In 2023, it owned close to 20% of the entire Medicare Advantage (MA) market, with about 5.8 Its health care services arm – CenterWell – includes pharmacy, home health care and primary care. CenterWell Home Health specifically has over 360 locations across 380 states. million 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

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 million Humana Medicare Advantage (MA) members.

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Home Health Care

JULY 15, 2022

This article is sponsored by Integrated Home Care Services. In this Voices interview, Home Health Care News sits down with Integrated Home Care Services (IHCS) co-founder Paul Pino to learn the top challenges in the home-based care space, and how the IHCS model addresses those challenge s.

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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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