Home Health Care

MARCH 30, 2023

Independence has over 100,000 Medicare Advantage members. They’re the biggest insurance company here in our area, and they’re sort of the hometown player,” Neil Patel, chief health officer of Patina, told Home Health Care News. This care delivery model was born out of the company’s need to “deconstruct the clinic.” “We

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Health Populi

JUNE 3, 2020

As we wrestle with just “what” health care will look like “after COVID,” there’s one certainty that we can embrace in our health planning and forecasting efforts: that’s the persistence of telehealth and virtual care into health care work- and life-flows, for clinicians and consumers alike and aligned.

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Home Health Care

JANUARY 18, 2022

Supreme Court on Thursday threw its support behind the nationwide COVID-19 vaccine mandate for health care workers, while simultaneously axing a vaccine-or-test rule for large employers. Last week’s developments shouldn’t shock the in-home care operators that have been following the U.S.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Doximity’s second report on telemedicine explores both physicians’ and patients’ views on virtual care, finding most doctors and health consumers on the same page of virtual care adoption. Telemedicine use did not vary much across physician age groups.

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Home Health Care

JULY 5, 2023

We have the ability to work from home, remotely, with telemedicine. While the workforce is still fatigued coming out of a pandemic, the average patient in home health care is also looking different. Patients discharged to home health care are more complex than they were five years ago, for instance.

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Home Health Care

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

The San Francisco-based in-home care startup has grown fairly rapidly since then, landing key partnerships with organizations like Cover Health (Nasdaq: CLOV) and a strategic investment from The SCAN Group. MedArrive is currently working with Bright’s newly enrolled Affordable Care Act (ACA) Medicare members. “A

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Home Health Care

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

“We actually enter into risk contracts, both with Medicare Advantage (MA) plans and with Medicare through direct contracting, to take responsibility for the ultimate outcomes of patients in a primary care environment,” Vertrees said. “It’s It’s a huge shift in strategy.”. A ‘360-degree view of the patient’.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Bravo to Essence Healthcare, a Medicare Advantage plan, for offering Oura rings in 2025 to members who want to engage with self-tracking, sharing data, and acting on advice to benefit their health as they age.

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Health Populi

JUNE 2, 2022

RAND and CMS research into seniors health disparities among Medicare Advantage enrollees. AARP’s assessment of telemedicine use among older people in the pandemic. A CDC report on Long-COVID being undiagnosed or overlooked in many older adults. Mental health trends among seniors.

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Home Health Care

DECEMBER 6, 2023

ACHC initially focused on accrediting home health agencies, but over the years, it has expanded its scope to include other health care sectors such as hospice, hospital, pharmacy, DME, home care and renal dialysis.

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HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 6, 2021

It doesn’t even take you to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) website. Thanks to the pandemic, for example, Medicare and most private insurance payers now cover telemedicine services, making it easier for patients and their caregivers to consult with their providers. Try Googling the word “caregiving.”

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Health Populi

MAY 20, 2020

Payors, both commercial and public sector (Medicare, Medicaid), have relaxed rules and regulations for telehealth across platforms (from purpose-built telemedicine programs to HIPAA-relaxed approvals for using FaceTime, Zoom, and other commercial channels), and have various plans to pay for virtual care visits between clinicians and patients.

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Geek Doctor

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

In a time of COVID, the current care models just can’t remain in place. We need innovative ways to address the high cost of acute care. One solution that is taking a front seat is telemedicine. 2] They found that the home model met the quality of care standards comparable to those expected of in-hospital programs.

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Hospitals Telemedicine Home Care Quality of Care 76

Home Health Care

JANUARY 30, 2023

This article is a part of your HHCN+ Membership Home-based care providers are enthused – at least in part – by the passing of the $1.66 trillion omnibus spending bill in December. Sign up for HHCN + to read this exclusive content.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

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. For this discussion, I’ll pick six exhibits from the Report’s roughly 140 exhibits — starting with the big picture of the unsustainable nature of U.S.

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Health Populi

MARCH 9, 2022

For those of you focused on serving Medicare or older patients, there are some important findings in the JLL study to add into your scenario planning assumptions. Those often lead to follow-up care, so we may not be seeing any difference between in-person and telehealth for follow up to specialists, etc.,” ” she added.

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Health Populi

MAY 10, 2022

The exuberance among Black older people to use telehealth in the future is undeniable, and a useful statistic to keep in mind when planning for the future of Medicare coupled with breaking down access barriers to care and promoting greater health equity.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

The company’s long-term research into healthy aging at home in particular guided solutions for older people in the pandemic, like George and Audrey.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

“Do personal health trackers belong in the doctor’s office?” ” Software Advice wondered. “Yes,” the company’s latest consumer survey found, details of which are discussed in a report published on their website.

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Health Dialog

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

Data has been normalized across Medicare, Medicaid, and Commercial populations. Medicaid accounted for almost one third of callers (32%) while Medicare patients use the service the least (21%). Why are commercial patients using the nurse line more than Medicare or Medicaid patients? Who typically calls a nurse line and why?

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

With the urgent need to identify more efficient and lower-cost health care delivery models, we look to growing evidence for digital health technologies that support the Hospital at Home (HaH) model, considered in a new review article published in late February in npj Digital Medicine, The hospital at home in the USA: current status and future prospects. (..)

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Hospitals Prevention Health Technology Integration 132

Home Health Care

DECEMBER 2, 2024

This article is a part of your HHCN+ Membership Living in an urban area typically offers greater access to a wider range of home care services than living in a rural area. Care Advantage provides both home care and home health services in Virginia, Maryland, Washington, D.C. and Delaware.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 10, 2022

And it’s crucial for incumbent health care suppliers — hospitals, pharma, devices and supplies, and health plans — to assess, learn, strategize and execute on the potential shift of $265 billion of care services that McKinsey expects to migrate to the home by 2025.

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Health Populi

MAY 25, 2021

For telehealth, that S-curve has had a very long and fairly flat front-end of the “S” followed by a hockey stick trajectory in March and April 2020 as the COVID-19 pandemic was an exogenous shock to in-person health care delivery.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 27, 2024

aging in and staying at home is a priority for most people over the age of 45 — and for nearly one-half of younger people between 18 and 44 — we learn in Best Buy Health’s Research Brief discussing the company’s survey of 1,000 U.S. In the U.S.,

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Health Populi

JANUARY 18, 2021

Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, more hospitals were piloting and planning to move inpatient acute care to certain patients’ home when that made clinical and economic sense. The public health crisis, combined with Medicare Advantage and other payors’ regimes, supported an economic model for the hospital-to-home movement.

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Hospitals Doctors Patient Experience Health Technology 77

Health Populi

DECEMBER 22, 2022

The updated ACO Reach payment model from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) sets forth a value-based model of capitated payments to physicians who meet quality and spending targets – combined with a plan to deal with health equity.

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Health Technology Primary Care Patient Experience Healthcare 62

Health Populi

DECEMBER 13, 2021

In early December, FarmBoxRx was the first online grocer to be approved to channel food to SNAP/EBT recipients as payment from Medicare and Medicaid. enabling enrollees in Medicare and Medicaid to order fresh produce online. FarmboxRx works with providers and insurers in the U.S.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

That was, in fact, the name of a research paper I wrote on behalf of the California Health Care Foundation in 2008. and Medicare enrollees with heart failure have the highest readmission rate of any condition. Please, Congress, Act to extend the Medicare telehealth flexibilities which are set to expire April 1, 2025.

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Home Health Care

DECEMBER 23, 2024

We are relieved to have made the final bill, Moving Health Home Founder Krista Drobac told HHCN in an email. The American Telemedicine Association (ATA) and ATA Action commended the extensions, too, while also noting that it wasn’t the complete outcome the organization wanted. We are anxious to see a 5-year extension in March.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 20, 2024

See that using digital tools for tracking health and fitness is a priority for older people, along with tech-driven fitness classes, medical care, telemedicine, mental health, and chronic care management, AARP discovered. The structuring of Medicaid expansion or shrinkage at the State level, work requirements, etc.

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Home Health Care

MARCH 14, 2025

The hearing was not the only action in the nations capital this week, as the House also passed a continuing resolution that includes extensions of the hospital-at-home and telehealth waivers that at-home care providers have been pushing for. The decisions made here will shape the future of home care.

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Home Health Care

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Seema Verma served as the administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) from 2017 to 2021. While that run makes Verma the longest-serving admin in the modern history of the agency, it also gives her a unique perspective on the future of health care in the U.S.,

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Telemedicine Hospitals Medicare Home Care 126

Healthcare It News

DECEMBER 18, 2024

After months and months (and months) of increasingly vocal and impassioned lobbying efforts , its appears that Democrats and Republicans on Capitol Hill have agreed – but not yet voted – on a stopgap year-end continuing resolution that will include key extensions several policies related to telehealth and at-home care.

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