Home Health Care

APRIL 23, 2024

Amid Medicaid changes, the most relevant news to home care providers is the aforementioned 80-20 provision, which will force HCBS providers to direct 80% of reimbursement to direct care workers. “We National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC) President William A. We would advise against that.

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HIT Consultant

AUGUST 22, 2024

Aaron Marcum, founder of Breakaway Home Care Accelerator With the advancements in medical care and the resilience of the human spirit, most people now live longer. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention supports this, publishing data about the rise in life expectancy in the U.S., reached a staggering $136.2

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Home Health Care

JANUARY 8, 2025

This will allow for a shift from a reactive to a proactive and predictive perspective in health care. What specific technologies do you foresee playing a critical role in enhancing care capabilities at home? What challenges do you anticipate in integrating new technologies into existing health care frameworks for home care?

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Hospitals Quality of Care Integration Home Care 101

Home Health Care

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

In order to become less dependent on fee-for-service business, home health providers have begun to take on more risk. That has led to an emergence of risk-based home care models, many of which have given providers room to partake in upside and downside risk. These areas are chronic care management and preventative care.

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Home Care Primary Care Hospice Care Hospitals 104

Home Health Care

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

As home health providers increasingly serve people with more complicated and serious conditions, and the push for cost-effective and value-based care continues, wound care is becoming more important than ever. The demand for knowledgeable providers and clinicians in home care has increased dramatically.

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Home Care Nursing Prevention Clinical Practice 82

Home Health Care

AUGUST 25, 2021

Despite ebbs and flows to COVID-19 case counts throughout 2020 and preventative measures being implemented in nursing homes as the crisis went on, nursing homes remained a hotbed for infections throughout the year. The Choose Home benefit does not have any cost sharing or cost shift to beneficiaries,” Dombi responded.

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Home Health Care

MAY 30, 2024

Specifically, home-based care – home health services, house calls and other ways of engaging with Medicare beneficiaries in the home – allows UnitedHealth Group and Optum to take a more preventative approach. That, in turn, benefits the company as well as the health care system as a whole, according to Witty.

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Population Health Prevention Quality of Care Home Care 110

Home Health Care

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

At a time when home care providers are swerving into new lanes, Help at Home is doubling down on personal home care services. Based in Chicago, Help at Home has more than 180 branch locations across 11 states. It provides personal care services to more than 66,000 clients via more than 53,000 caregivers.

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Home Health Care

JULY 19, 2024

This article is a part of your HHCN+ Membership The home health industry has its very own boogeyman — the bad actor. The outright fraud, where it’s very overt and purposeful, is the greatest concern,” he told Home Health Care News. In the 90s, I was in a taxi in Boston and the taxi driver asked me, ‘What do you do?’”

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Home Health Care

APRIL 22, 2024

The Ensuring Access to Medicaid Services (Access rule) final rule advances access to care and quality of care, and will improve health outcomes for Medicaid beneficiaries across fee-for-service (FFS) and managed care delivery systems, including home- and community-based services provided through those delivery systems.”

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Home Health Care

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Now, being partners with the large MA plans and large hospital systems, via our Contessa acquisition, we can drive our risk-taking solutions into traditional home health and hospice, as well as increase our market size into high-acuity home care. Consumers expect health care to come to them. Nasdaq: AMED). * * *.

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Home Health Care

JULY 18, 2024

“Welcome Health’s physicians and interdisciplinary teams holistically and expertly serve seniors where and when they need it, creating new access and improved quality of care,” Bakshi said in a statement. “I The Home Care Alliance of Massachusetts is a nonprofit trade association comprised of home care agencies.

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Home Health Care

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Overall, Welcome Health will deliver routine primary care, preventive care, chronic illness management and more in the home. “We We can deliver a high quality of care in the home,” Weingarten said. At the time, SCAN leaders told HHCN MedArrive was “just the start” of a broader in-home care push.

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Primary Care Medicare Quality of Care Patient Experience 105

Home Health Care

JUNE 9, 2022

Forty-two percent of respondents project value-based contracts will account for more than half or most of their organization’s revenue in the next three to five years, according to a survey of home-based care professionals conducted by Home Health Care News and AlayaCare in early 2022.

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

2020 saw three factors combine to define the future of “Hospital at Home” care in a way that will become a new care reality over the coming years. In fact, patients have generally become more amenable to being treated remotely , further supporting the move to add telehealth tools to the patient care arsenal.

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Geek Doctor

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

2] They found that the home model met the quality of care standards comparable to those expected of in-hospital programs. Also, "On an intention-to-treat basis, patients treated in hospital-at-home had a shorter length of stay (3.2 Advanced Care at Home, a partnership between Mayo Clinic and Medically Home.

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Hospitals Telemedicine Home Care Quality of Care 76

Home Health Care

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

What are some industry challenges and market conditions in home care, home health, and hospice you pay the closest attention to? The big challenge in this industry is caregiver recruitment and retention, and according to the 2023 Home Care Pulse Benchmarking Report, turnover in 2022 was 77.1% — its worst since 2018.

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Home Care Quality of Care Regulations Prevention 64

NASHP

OCTOBER 22, 2021

People with serious and life-threatening health conditions experience care needs that drive costs, including hospital admissions , emergency department utilization , and nursing home care. As part of contract and systems oversight, states engage in a range of quality assessment and improvement strategies.

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Medicaid Hospice Care Regulations Integration 102

NASHP

MAY 20, 2022

Florida’s 1915(b)/1915(c) MLTSS program requires managed care organizations to offer a family caregiver training program as one of several quality enhancement s, along with fall prevention in-home and information on end-of-life issues and advanced directives. Family caregivers are generally a safety net of support.

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NASHP

AUGUST 24, 2023

State health reform efforts increasingly focus on providing comprehensive and well-coordinated care to people with serious illness to improve quality of care and drive down costs. T)he benefit will be made available in all care settings including the community, nursing facilities, and assisted living facilities.”

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Sheppard Health Law

JANUARY 10, 2024

Markovich is worried that the healthcare system is losing the public’s trust – which will make it harder to effectively fix our system – while also not delivering the quality of care and accessibility needed by our population. For example, Christopher Riopelle, CEO of Strive Health, shared today that 42% of U.S.

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NASHP

MARCH 22, 2024

The commission was created in the New Hampshire Legislature in 2000 (NH RSA Chapter 12-J), which established the Alcohol Fund, directing a part of proceed from sales of alcohol to prevention, harm reduction treatment, and recovery services. An action plan dashboard tracks targets.

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Home Health Care

MARCH 28, 2022

Home care franchise giant Seniors Helpers entered this year with big ambitions, partly fueled by its April 2021 acquisition by Advocate Aurora Enterprises. For our latest episode of “Disrupt,” Home Health Care News caught up with Ross to learn more about Senior Helpers’ plans in 2022 and its relationship with Advocate.

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Home Health Care

DECEMBER 19, 2021

This year saw home care providers further build on the spotlight the public health emergency placed on the industry. As part of our annual tradition, Home Health Care News caught up with eight home care leaders to document their predictions on trends, challenges and opportunities for the coming year.

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Home Health Care

JANUARY 4, 2023

This article is based on a Home Health Care News discussion with Hannah Luetke-Stahlman, Vice President of Solutions Management at WellSky, and Sheila Davis, Senior Vice President of Area Operations at Always Best Care. The discussion took place on November 16, 2022, during the HHCN Home Care Conference in Chicago.

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Home Care Integration Regulations Hospitals 105

HIT Consultant

AUGUST 31, 2023

In recognition of the procedural burden our existing processes and systems exact, Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra has encouraged states to use all available strategies to streamline redeterminations and prevent eligible enrollees from losing coverage due to procedural issues.

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Medicaid Prevention Health Data Quality of Care 64

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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Vie Healthcare

JULY 26, 2023

It’s initiated, not as a preventative or proactive planned thing. And I think we should be looking at home health too. Transitions to home care, especially for dementia patients. Empower your teams to look at the care they provide through the lens of the caregiver. It’s usually a crisis.

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Hospitals Nursing Doctors Healthcare 52

Briggs Healthcare

JANUARY 18, 2023

“President Biden issued a call to action to improve the quality of America’s nursing homes, and HHS is taking action so that seniors, people with disabilities, and others living in nursing homes receive the highest quality care,” said HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra. “No

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 20, 2024

consumers minds at the start of 2025, Gallup told us in its latest read on Americans most urgent health care problems above access and quality of care. Omnichannel comes to health care, from hospital to retail to home DTC advertising is unique to the U.S. Cost ranks highest in all U.S.

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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Given the complex needs of system-involved youth, healthcare systems must collaborate closely with child welfare and juvenile justice agencies to ensure consistent care that addresses individuals’ physical, mental, and behavioral health needs. Moreover, prompt health screenings are crucial for children entering the foster care system.

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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. In home care, they can bond, educate and make meaningful impact on patients, often delivering concierge-type care.

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Briggs Healthcare

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

We will keep doing everything we can to ensure all Americans receive the dignity, care, and respect they deserve.” “CMS CMS is committed to using every tool at our disposal to improve nursing home care and identify trends that enhance residents’ quality of life,” CMS Administrator Chiquita Brooks-LaSure said. “If

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Home Health Care

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

Worse, it would do so based on flawed economic theory, artificially narrow geographic markets, out-of-context quotations from a handful of documents, and with zero regard for the actual improvements to patient satisfaction and quality of care that would flow from the transaction.

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Briggs Healthcare

MARCH 1, 2022

In fact, failure to comply with Federal guidelines at nursing homes is widespread. The Government Accountability Office found that, from 2013 to 2017, 82% of all inspected nursing homes had an infection prevention and control deficiency, including a lack of regular handwashing, that was identified through Medicare and Medicaid surveys.

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Quality of Care Nursing Accountability Medicaid 40

Bill Of Health

DECEMBER 7, 2024

Those eligible for Medicare individuals aged 65 and older also benefit from ACA provisions that close the prescription drug donut hole and provide preventive services without cost-sharing. However, Medicare does not cover all health care needs, notably long-term care services.

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Medicaid Medicare Prevention Regulations 74

Bill Of Health

DECEMBER 7, 2024

Those eligible for Medicare individuals aged 65 and older also benefit from ACA provisions that close the prescription drug donut hole and provide preventive services without cost-sharing. However, Medicare does not cover all health care needs, notably long-term care services.

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