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

APRIL 27, 2023

About a dozen years ago when Will Putman took over the business development side of Continuous Home Care, his dad — the co-founder of the company — had an unofficial benchmark nicknamed “blackjack.” Continuous Home Care is a Pennsylvania-based home health provider with about 350 employees.

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Home Health Care

AUGUST 25, 2021

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is sure to add more fuel to the fire for the “Choose Home” initiative and other movements aiming to bring more care into the home. The potential impact on legislation. Introduced to the U.S. We adamantly oppose this bill in its current form,” its statement read.

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Home Health Care

SEPTEMBER 3, 2022

Seniors on Medicare Advantage health plans may not always be receiving high quality care, a new study shows. The study’s authors concluded that paying higher premiums is not always necessary when seniors are trying to receive high quality care from an MA plan.

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Home Health Care

MARCH 28, 2022

Florida Blue Medicare — the state’s Blue Cross and Blue Shield Medicare plan — is collaborating with Emcara Health to offer eligible members access to home-based primary care. The collaboration reflects how payers are increasingly turning to in-home care organizations of all shapes and sizes.

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Home Health Care

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Using data from the Outcome and Assessment Information Set (OASIS), Area Deprivation Index and Patient Care Star Ratings, researchers examined 1,657,133 Medicare beneficiaries who received home care in 2019.

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Home Health Care

AUGUST 7, 2024

NYSE: EHAB) has decided to walk away from certain Medicare Advantage (MA) payers – and namely UnitedHealth Group’s (NYSE: UNH) UnitedHealthcare. That decision, and the recent home health proposed payment rule, were top of mind for Enhabit leaders on Tuesday. Staying on course with its payer innovation strategy, Enhabit Inc.

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Home Health Care

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Ringold sat down with Home Health Care News to discuss his career trajectory and centering home care business around the caregivers. I started my career in the home care industry in 2010, but my first experience with home care was as a patient. What quality must all Future Leaders possess?

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Home Health Care

OCTOBER 4, 2023

This article is based on a Home Health Care News discussion with Lucas O’Connell, VP of Operations at AssuranceSD, Francesca Rinaldo, head of clinical strategy for home care at Sharecare, and Christina Andrews, senior director of professional services at Axxess. The article below has been edited for length and clarity.

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Home Health Care

APRIL 23, 2022

The Vistria Group-backed Help at Home is one of the larger home care organizations in the U.S. At Help at Home, 90% of the company’s funding comes from state government programs from Medicaid. On the other end, when looking at the Medicare reimbursement landscape for home health providers, William A.

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Home Health Care

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Since its implementation in 2020, the Patient-Driven Groupings Model (PDGM) has loomed large in the home health space. Now, PDGM is a driving force behind much of the transaction activity taking place in this space, according to Linda Murphy, COO and founder of Concierge Home Care. Let’s see what it looks like.’

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Home Health Care

JULY 18, 2022

To pull this off, the hospital has formed a partnership with the Visiting Nurse Association of Florida (VNA), a home health agency. Together, the two organizations have formed TGH Home Care, powered by VNA of Florida. Meanwhile, VNA is a Medicare-certified agency that delivers care in the home setting.

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Briggs Healthcare

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Many aging veterans rely on nursing home care to meet their daily needs. billion for veteran nursing home care provided in state veterans homes. GAO conducted a nationwide survey to collect information on the 153 state veterans homes providing nursing home care.

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Home Health Care

AUGUST 27, 2024

Home Health Care News recently spoke with Special Touch Home Care CEO Evan Ostrovsky about the company’s 40-year history, serving 150,000 patients, its expansion into New York’s Consumer Directed Personal Assistance Program (CDPAP) as a fiscal intermediary, and how the company expects to grow amid these changes.

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Home Health Care

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

This article is a part of your HHCN+ Membership In the last home health proposed rule from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), the federal agency in charge of reimbursement rates sent out a request for information on home health aide utilization. million to 2.1 million in that same 18-month period of time.”

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Home Health Care

JANUARY 17, 2022

The end of 2021 brought a handful of key home health policy issues to a temporary conclusion, including the congressionally secured delay to Medicare sequestration. starting with Choose Home. Read on to learn more about: — The major policy and regulatory issues impacting home health and home care in 2022. —

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Home Health Care

JUNE 14, 2024

A group of bipartisan lawmakers this week reintroduced legislation aimed at curtailing restrictive – and often flawed – prior-authorization processes within Medicare Advantage (MA). As it has been to most other parts of health care, prior authorization has long been problematic for home health providers and patients.

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Briggs Healthcare

JUNE 28, 2023

Both the changes to Nursing Home Care Compare and the publishing of the Nursing Home Affiliated Entity Performance Measures dataset on data.cms.gov will take place on June 28, 2023. Affiliated entity names and ID numbers will be published in the ownership sections for each facility on Nursing Home Care Compare.

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Home Health Care

OCTOBER 3, 2024

HHCN: For the listeners that are unfamiliar with Vesta, can you go into detail about your company’s business model and how it works with home care providers? Klein: We are a specialized medical group for people with long-term home care. I grew up in a home care family. My dad worked for a health plan.

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Home Health Care

MARCH 9, 2022

health care system has learned that home-based care companies are well-positioned to respond to unique challenges, with at-home care approaches often boosting patient satisfaction, lowering costs and improving quality of care. Over the past few years, the U.S.

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Home Health Care

MARCH 31, 2023

Medicare fee-for-service rates are not where home health providers want them to be. We are payer agnostic, but we’re payer selective,” Traditions Health CEO David Klementz said Thursday at Home Health Care News’ Capital + Strategy event in Washington, D.C. From my perspective, it’s two-fold,” he said. “On

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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. Much of the specifics are still to be decided,” NAHC President William A.

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Home Health Care

AUGUST 25, 2021

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) first released its home health proposed payment rule for 2022, its nationwide expansion of the Home Health Value-Based Purchasing (HHVBP) Model was recognized as a potential game-changer for the home health industry.

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Home Health Care

JULY 10, 2024

Recently, he helped expand Trinity’s home health and PACE services in the Mid-Atlantic region, according to the company. “We We are confident that Dan will elevate the quality of care we provide to our communities,” Trinity Health EVP and COO Ben Carter said in a statement.

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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

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Medicare Advantage (MA) plans are increasingly delegating the management of their home health spend to conveners. With MA outpacing fee-for-service in growth, home health providers are increasingly trying to figure out how to best work with the MA subsection of their business. Paul Kusserow; President and CEO, Amedisys Inc.

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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

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

MAY 25, 2023

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently published two proposed rules that have major implications for home-based care providers. said during a Home Care Association of America webinar on Thursday.

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Home Health Care

APRIL 3, 2024

“We continuously evaluate all our programs to ensure our members are receiving the highest quality of care and work closely with our provider partners to decrease their administrative burden wherever possible,” Dr. Hemant Hora, senior medical director at Point32Health, told Home Health Care News in an email. “We

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Home Health Care

MAY 30, 2024

Specifically, home-based care – home health services, house calls and other ways of engaging with Medicare beneficiaries in the home – allows UnitedHealth Group and Optum to take a more preventative approach. That, in turn, benefits the company as well as the health care system as a whole, according to Witty.

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Home Health Care

JANUARY 2, 2024

Devoted Health, a next-generation Medicare Advantage plan and tech-enabled startup , made a financial splash to end 2023 – announcing $175 million in new funding. The Massachusetts-based Devoted Health is an all-in-one health care company that delivers virtual-first care and insurance to primarily Medicare Advantage patients.

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Home Health Care

JULY 19, 2024

This article is a part of your HHCN+ Membership The home health industry has its very own boogeyman — the bad actor. The outright fraud, where it’s very overt and purposeful, is the greatest concern,” he told Home Health Care News. “The

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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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Home Health Care

AUGUST 15, 2024

We will dedicate our clinical resources to fee-for-service Medicare patients, and those members of the 68 favorable contracts. We remain committed to providing our strong quality of care to UnitedHealthcare members, if at some point they decide to contract with acceptable rates.”

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Health Populi

MAY 10, 2022

The top barrier to using telehealth for people 50+ are concerns about the quality of care not being on-par with in-person visits to doctors. One-half of older Americans look to telehealth to renew prescriptions, and 42% to discuss a new medical issue.

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Home Health Care

JUNE 28, 2023

Riggins is a veteran of the home health space, but has been thrust into RCD given the VitalCaring’s footprint in Texas and Florida, two of the five states where the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) demonstration is active. There are pros and cons to each option. National expansion next?

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