Home Health Care

OCTOBER 4, 2022

With the annual enrollment period just around the corner, Medicare Advantage (MA) organizations are starting to tout what benefits they’re offering seniors for the upcoming year. MA is a form of Medicare that is administered by private insurers. Medicare open enrollment runs from October 15 to December 7, 2022. Humana Inc.

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Home Health Care

AUGUST 13, 2024

This article is a part of your HHCN+ Membership The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) launched the Guiding an Improved Dementia Experience (GUIDE) Model on July 1, which aims to create more comprehensive, coordinated dementia care. Lifespark, headquartered in St.

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Home Health Care

JULY 24, 2024

Seniors who have difficulty leaving their homes or accessing traditional medical facilities have a new option for health care: mobile, medical home care visits from Horizon Care Services. Horizon Care Services is already a successful home care, care management and senior placement provider in Florida.

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Home Health Care

JULY 10, 2024

.” The Livonia, Michigan-based Trinity Health is one of the largest nonprofit health care systems in the country, with a network of 121,000 employees, 101 hospitals, 126 continuing care locations, 136 urgent care locations and one of the largest PACE footprints.

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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 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

McKinsey’s report models outpatient and office visits that can be virtually enabled for patients covered by both commercial and public sector health plans (Medicare and Medicaid). 35% of home health services, and. 2% of tech-enabled home medication administration (think: specialty drugs come home).

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Home Health Care

APRIL 12, 2023

We have a huge footprint in value-based care, particularly serving seniors,” Powder said. “We We take a lot of full-risk capitation in Medicare Advantage. They should be in urgent care or in a retail clinic. I think a lot of that ends up in the home. So, we’ve got financial skin in the game.”

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Home Health Care

FEBRUARY 11, 2023

This article is a part of your HHCN+ Membership Best of Care diversifies offerings through latest acquisition The Boston-based Best of Care is the latest home care provider to diversify its offerings through acquisition. In 2018, it also began providing concierge-level care management. in seed funding.

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Home Health Care

DECEMBER 13, 2024

While theyve been told value-based care is the way to go, they often end up finding that health systems and payers arent as willing to meet them in the middle. Medicare Advantage (MA) payers, when pressed on the idea of a value-based arrangement, generally arent willing or able to make agreements with home health providers.

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Home Health Care

MAY 10, 2022

Seniors in rural areas often face more hurdles to gaining access to home-based care, especially in comparison to their urban counterparts. The program is the latest development for the rapidly growing in-home care provider, which specializes in treating higher-acuity patients. under the waiver.

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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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Home Health Care

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

The Medicare stars program actually outlines a number of those, and we want to hold ourselves to the same level of accountability in the home. Can you give us a general update first on how hospital at home is going at Kaiser – what the census looks like and any other details? Are they involved at all? It’s a good question.

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Home Health Care

DECEMBER 19, 2021

Humana actually started out about 60 years ago as a nursing home company, and then transitioned to a hospital company, then an insurance company, which for the last couple of decades is how we know it. Specifically, an insurance company that is pretty deep in Medicare Advantage (MA).

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Home Health Care

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

The organization includes 16 hospitals, 11 ambulatory surgery centers, four off-campus emergency rooms and CareNow Urgent Care clinics. Centers of Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to participate in its Acute Hospital at Home Program. As of Nov.

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Home Health Care

JANUARY 8, 2025

During the last 50 years, we have built a health care system focused on facilities, primarily bringing patients to these locations to receive the care they need. Many see the home as an opportunity to create the seamless care continuum that is often discussed, though the current health care system is highly fragmented.

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Home Health Care

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

One of the things that’s very interesting is that it’s really, really hard to look at 2022 and compare it to 2021, which was a breakout year in mergers and acquisitions across the board, forget just health care services. That was for all industries including the aggregate of Medicare, Medicaid, and private duty transactions.

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Health Populi

MAY 25, 2021

Virtual care has touched most families around the world, and providers quickly pivoted work-flows to the phone, to broadband, to portals, across the continuum-of-care beyond emergent care, urgent care, and dermatology. Over a year since the pandemic emerged in the U.S.,

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Sheppard Health Law

JANUARY 10, 2024

Sell noted that there had been higher utilization coming from hip and knee replacements in their Medicare Advantage (MA) population, as well as certain drug and other costs. Monogram Health also spoke to the use of palliative care programs for its chronic kidney disease patients. GLP-1’s for Chronic Kidney Disease?

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 10, 2022

” McKinsey is talking about Medicare’s spending that could be shifted home in just two+ years, ranging from $180 to a quarter of a trillion dollars. Why, that’s just some months away from “now.”

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Home Health Care

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Hannah Patterson: I’m the vice president of our workforce management solutions at Netsmart, a Healthcare IT vendor that provides services and solutions technologies for home care, post-acute providers and our human services clients. It has great reporting so we can see how many urgent and non-urgent care requests have come in.

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Home Health Care

JUNE 20, 2023

This article is a part of your HHCN+ Membership In the broader at-home care space, Dr. Michael Le is considered an innovator. His impressive resume — which also includes time at Optum Home & Community Care and CareMore Health Plan — places him at the forefront of the movement bringing more care to the home and the community.

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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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Health Dialog

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

In fact, according to our internal data, nearly 12% of patients who call our nurse line with a pre-intent of visiting an urgent care facility were appropriately redirected to visit an emergency room instead. Data has been normalized across Medicare, Medicaid, and Commercial populations. Who typically calls a nurse line and why?

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