Home Health Care

JUNE 18, 2024

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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Home Health Care

AUGUST 18, 2022

It has been well documented how home health providers and advocacy organizations feel about the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) home health proposed payment rule for CY 2023. What has not been, up to this point, is how Medicare beneficiaries feel about it.

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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. The LTM Group, based in Dayton, Ohio, provides home health, personal care, hospice, and rehabilitation services through multiple locations.

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Home Health Care

AUGUST 12, 2024

The company provides – through multiple locations – home health, personal care, hospice and rehabilitation services. The organization collaborates with health care systems and payers to deliver care to patients in Indiana, Ohio, Michigan and Texas.

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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 7, 2022

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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Home Health Care

OCTOBER 31, 2023

A group of senators sent a letter to President Joe Biden last week urging him and his administration to look after the Medicare home health benefit. We are writing today to urge your Administration to continue protecting Medicare beneficiaries’ access to home health care,” the senators wrote. “We

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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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Home Health Care

APRIL 3, 2024

Hemant Hora, senior medical director at Point32Health, told Home Health Care News in an email. “We We welcome all home care providers interested in working with us to reach out.” Formerly, home health services required prior authorization after initial evaluations from Harvard Pilgrim and Tufts Health Plan plans.

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Home Health Care

OCTOBER 3, 2023

The Senate Finance Committee’s Subcommittee on Health Care recently held a hearing centered around home health care and aging in place in the U.S. The general consensus of many of the home health stakeholders that attended was that the hearing was a success. In particular, the Medicare home health program.

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Etactics

JUNE 29, 2023

Really the price of nursing home care depends on many different factors. In some cases, nursing home facilities have all-inclusive rates. And those who work with the elderly and disabled in a nursing home setting will likely find themselves working with Medicare. National coverage decisions made by Medicare.

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Home Health Care

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

In the past, Compassus has also teamed up with personal care franchise company Synergy HomeCare. “I I think [about] three things with regards to the future of home care,” Jeff Marsh, chief growth officer at Compassus, said last month at Home Health Care News’ FUTURE conference.

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Home Health Care

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Meanwhile, CenterWell Home Health is built from the biggest home health and hospice organization in the nation. As of April, Kindred at Home had locations in 40 states, delivering in-home care to more than 550,000 patients annually. Humana is obviously bullish on its in-home care strategy.

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Home Health Care

JANUARY 3, 2024

Home-based care highlighted BrightSpring is led by multiple home-based care veterans. He specifically led Kindred’s home health, hospice, home care and home-based primary care businesses. Mike McMaude, meanwhile, leads BrightSpring’s home health and hospice services segment.

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Home Health Care

AUGUST 4, 2023

Braff Group hires former Amedisys M&A expert The Braff Group has hired Kris Novak to become the firm’s new managing director of home health, hospice, home care and pediatrics. Pendley has been at FirstLight Home Care since 2018. Our aging population demands it and FirstLight is up to the challenge.”

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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

DispatchHealth Raises $330M for Hospital-at-Home Care. DispatchHealth , a provider of in-home medical care raises $330M led by Optum Ventures with support from current investors such as Humana (NYSE: HUM), Oak HC/FT, Echo Health Ventures and Questa Capital.

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Healthcare Success

DECEMBER 16, 2024

And so, yeah, so the if people often you know the industry term is sniffs or skilled nursing facilities, and those are nursing homes, and there's home care and home health which are different a little bit. It actually pays far below your traditional Medicare reimbursement.

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Home Health Care

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

In summer, hardly a week went by where Choice Health at Home wasn’t in the headlines. Founded in 2007 by David Jackson, a licensed physical therapist, Choice is a home health, hospice and rehabilitation services provider with dozens of locations in Texas, Oklahoma and a couple of other states. A significant opportunity’.

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Health Populi

JUNE 13, 2018

Even with moderating medical trend growth, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) expect that healthcare spending will account for 20% of the U.S. As with public sector healthcare spending (“entitlements” in the form of Medicare and Medicaid), healthcare spending crowds out U.S. economy by 2026.

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Home Health Care

AUGUST 1, 2023

Braff Group hires former Amedisys M&A expert The Braff Group has hired Kris Novak to become the firm’s new managing director of home health, hospice, home care and pediatrics. The Cincinnati-based FirstLight Home Care has about 200 locations across the country.

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Home Health Care

MARCH 11, 2025

During the health subcommittee hearing titled After the Hospital: Ensuring Access to Quality Post-Acute Care, Empath President and CEO Johnathan Fleece and Dr. Dana Madison, owner of Compassion Home Health, were among the speakers. The decisions made here will shape the future of home care.

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NASHP

MARCH 22, 2024

North Carolina’s comprehensive behavioral health approach included efforts to increase uptake of CoCM through additional training and practice supports and Medicaid rate increases to 120% of Medicare rates for behavioral health providers. An action plan dashboard tracks targets. CMS’s Birth to 5: Watch Me Thrive!

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Home Health Care

MARCH 28, 2022

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%. If you’re of Medicare age, you don’t have to have any coverage.

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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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Health Populi

JANUARY 7, 2019

An important example of this self-care approach is the evidence-based Ornish food regimen which is reimbursed by Medicare (as a form of cardiac rehabilitation). Using food and tech as medicine can help people avoid going on medications like statins and others for heart health.

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NASHP

MARCH 28, 2022

A certified nurse assistant (CNA) is qualified to work in a Medicare-certified nursing facility. Home Health Aides. Home health aides (HHAs) also provide personal assistance with self-care activities and health-related tasks, such as changing bandages or administering medications.

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Briggs Healthcare

DECEMBER 6, 2022

The pre-rulemaking process provides the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) with a vehicle to hear from stakeholders for early consideration of measures. Home Health has 2 such measures: Cross-Setting Discharge Function Score. This measure falls within the Person-Centered Care healthcare domain.

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Home Health Care

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Earlier this month, in-home care advocacy group Moving Health Home sent a letter to Congress urging the inclusion of a five-year extension for the waiver in the March government funding package. The partnership culminated in the launch of a home-based acute care model for Highmark health plan members.

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