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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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

JANUARY 19, 2023

Home health providers should keep a close eye on the rise and popularity of managed care plans under Medicare Advantage in 2023. That was one of the many messages from Bill Dombi, president of the National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC), during Wednesday’s webinar with Netsmart.

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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. that point to the increasing need for more senior care services. This has implications for the safety of home care clients as well.”.

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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

JUNE 17, 2024

This article is a part of your HHCN+ Membership The Medicaid Access Rule has been heralded by home care providers as a mostly good rule with one misguided piece: the 80-20 provision. Billing rates have already soared in private-pay home care since the COVID-19 pandemic, which has forced providers to get creative.

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Home Health Care

JUNE 27, 2022

Where its home health counterparts are generally built similarly, mostly tied to Medicare as a payer, the personal care market is full of companies with vastly different strategies. Care management and home care services together are not a new – or necessarily rare – pairing.

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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. It requires them to electronically verify the services they deliver. . …

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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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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

APRIL 23, 2024

This article is a part of your HHCN+ Membership On Tuesday, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) officials vehemently backed the thought process behind the “80-20” wage mandate in home- and community-based services (HCBS). National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC) President William A.

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Home Health Care

JANUARY 19, 2022

Medicare Advantage (MA) has been viewed over the last few years as a new space for home-based care providers to generate revenue. Changes have allowed MA plans to pay for additional at-home services, whether through primarily health-related benefits or Special Supplemental Benefits for the Chronically Ill (SSBCI).

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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

OCTOBER 23, 2023

In this Voices Interview, Home Health Care News sits down with Kris Novak, Managing Director, Home Health, Home Care and Hospice, The Braff Group, to share the lessons he’s learned as a buyer of home health and hospice agencies that every seller should know. Delays are never in the seller’s favor.

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Home Health Care

JULY 18, 2024

This article is a part of your HHCN+ Membership The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) isn’t letting up on cuts to home health payments, but its recent rulemaking in Medicare Advantage (MA) may end up benefiting home health providers indirectly.

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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

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Medicare Advantage (MA) supplemental benefits have expanded and evolved over the last five or six years, but there’s a need to concretely prove their value. One way to do so would be by mirroring the regulatory model state Medicaid programs use for home- and community-based services.

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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 were telling us that because they believed [providers] were making too much profit in the Medicare program. The cuts will be reduced because, No.

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Home Health Care

OCTOBER 25, 2024

This article is a part of your HHCN+ Membership The Federation of American Hospitals (FAH) released a statement Thursday regarding recent investigations into Medicare Advantage (MA) plans. Those investigations included concerns around claim denials, as well as discrepancies between MA plan practices when compared to traditional Medicare.

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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

MARCH 24, 2022

A group of New York home-based care providers are taking aim at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), the New York State Department of Health (NYSDOH) and the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) in a lawsuit filed Friday. The plaintiffs in the case are Safe Haven Home Care Inc.,

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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

JULY 14, 2023

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) published its home health proposed payment rule for 2024. The proposal, almost immediately, drew a negative response from key home health stakeholders. The main headline was CMS’ decision to propose a home health payment decrease of 2.2%. Cleamon Moorer Jr.,

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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

AUGUST 24, 2021

On Thursday, the New York Department of Health, Codes Committee of the Public Health and Health Planning Council (PHHPC) will meet to consider implementing an emergency regulation regarding “Prevention of COVID-19 Transmission by Covered Entities.”. Empath Health also runs a Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE) operation.

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Home Health Care

MARCH 6, 2024

In 2023, Medicare Advantage (MA) plan members represented more than half of all Medicare beneficiaries for the first time. In 2024, while penetration continues, there are other trends within MA that home-based care providers should be paying attention to. UnitedHealth Group is directly involved in home health care.

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Home Health Care

MAY 24, 2024

What is surprising is that the program they continually target in budget cutbacks has an impressive record of saving the government billions: Medicare-certified home health care. Government-funded health care programs like Medicare, Medicaid and Medicare Advantage (MA) home health are closely connected in how they are financed.

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Home Health Care

DECEMBER 5, 2024

We know that most adults want to age in place at home, which is the right place as its proven to be better for overall health and well-being and more cost-effective than an institutionalized setting, Help at Home President Tim ORourke told Home Health Care News.

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Home Health Care

JULY 29, 2024

The state takes those parameters and implements their own programs within the framework that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) provides. In general, the Medicaid program has a history of under-reimbursing for services in comparison to Medicare and private insurance. “It Hospice is one of the few exceptions.

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Home Health Care

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released its FY 2023 home health final payment rule late Monday. It comes with an estimated increase to 2023 home health payments of 0.7%, or $125 million, compared to 2022 aggregate payments. For providers with a Medicare certification date prior to Jan.

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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

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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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

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

A group of 22 states — led by Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen — have urged the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to lift the COVID-19 vaccine mandate for health care workers in the Medicare and Medicaid space. The] upside — may slightly increase the availability of staff,” NAHC President William A.

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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

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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