Home Health Care

DECEMBER 7, 2023

While home care providers are working to mitigate headwinds – such as the rising cost of delivering care and staffing challenges – they also have their eye on where the industry goes from here. As 2024 approaches, home care leaders are embracing AI, alternative payer sources, employee-centric solutions and much more.

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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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Healthcare It News

JUNE 24, 2024

OSF HealthCare, a health system that serves Illinois and Michigan, had a big challenge: Managing the high rate of patient readmissions from hospitals to skilled nursing facilities and eventually to home care. THE PROBLEM This issue stemmed largely from gaps in continuous care during transitions between these settings.

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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

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. We would much prefer to see a targeted capability applied,” Dombi said.

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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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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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