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Medicare Advantage Home Health Utilization Lags Behind Traditional Medicare

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Yet another study suggests that Medicare Advantage (MA) beneficiaries have less access to quality home health services. The Research Institute for Home Care (RIHC) funds research related to home-based care delivery. It recently published research around hospital-to-home transitions.

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Study Shows SNF-at-Home Care Feasible, Less Costly

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The study was conducted between August and September of 2019 and used a pilot trial where 10 patients were randomly assigned to rehabilitation-at-home (RAH) care. Half of the patients were treated at their homes and half were treated at a SNF. Now we need to do the rest of the work to replicate it in a bigger sample.”.

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How CommonSpirit Reduced Medicare Spending by $136M

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CommonSpirit Health carved out $136 million in savings to Medicare for 2020, while also improving overall outcomes for hundreds of thousands of beneficiaries, the company recently announced. CommonSpirit Health is a participant in the Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP), which began back in 2012 after being designed by the U.S.

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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.

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

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

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