Home Health Care

APRIL 22, 2024

“The ‘Ensuring Access to Medicaid Services’ final rule, finalized today, will help improve access to home care services as well as improve the quality caregiving jobs through its new provisions for home care,” the White House wrote in a statement Monday. This is a developing story. This is a developing story.

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JULY 11, 2022

A new proposal in Pennsylvania that would create “unnecessary” duplication for how disabled patients choose their home care providers and receive care is causing some angst in the Keystone state. Choosing a home care agency or caregiver plan is one of the highest priorities for people living with disabilities in Pennsylvania.

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Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 14, 2021

"The pandemic winding down is great from a public health standpoint, but we know Congress doesn't want to just open the floodgates" with no virtual care regulations. The coalition's perspective, he said, is that regulators should "put guardrails on, but let us continue the good work."

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Home Health Care

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

With more eyes than ever on the home care industry, experts are trying to read the tea leaves to determine if greater standardization will eventually follow. Once considered the “youngest kid” in the larger health care continuum, home care has been ushered into the spotlight over the past couple of years.

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Home Health Care

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Policy and regulations for home care haven’t kept pace with the growing demand for services and the overall increased visibility of the sector. In terms of the type of care seniors prefer, services that allow them to age in place for as long as possible are overwhelmingly popular.

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Home Health Care

DECEMBER 22, 2023

As home care leaders begin to strategize for 2024, part of the process will be identifying the challenges they believe will be main characters next year. Oftentimes, home care leaders will point to labor as the biggest challenge in the space. And, as a result, the price tag attached to care billing rates.

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Home Health Care

MAY 2, 2022

The home care industry is changing. Its role in the overall health care system is growing, but the question is whether home care providers are doing enough to keep up with that growth. That’s all encapsulated in Home Care Pulse’s recently released 2021 Benchmarking Study. . The home care workforce.

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Home Health Care

JUNE 17, 2024

This article is a part of your HHCN+ Membership The Medicaid Access Rule has been heralded by home care providers as a mostly good rule with one misguided piece: the 80-20 provision. Billing rates have already soared in private-pay home care since the COVID-19 pandemic, which has forced providers to get creative.

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Home Health Care

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Empirical evidence suggests that hospital-at-home care is safe and effective. Anecdotal evidence suggests that the model is still not nearly as widespread as it should be, however, with patients regularly asking their health care providers about the option. Medical care in the home is inherently a team sport,” Shulman said. “In

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Home Health Care

OCTOBER 11, 2021

While the rate for New York home-based care workers checked in at about 86% partially vaccinated and 71% fully vaccinated, at least 34,000 caregivers have not begun the process at all, according to reports from The New York Times. The new data comes from preliminary reports from New York’s Department of Health. That requires a runway.

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Home Health Care

FEBRUARY 13, 2022

Like any regulations that home-based care agencies have been subjected to of late, it’s been hard for some providers to adjust and easier for others. Broadly, EVV applies to Medicaid-reimbursed home care providers. It requires them to electronically verify the services they deliver. “It’s

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Home Health Care

AUGUST 16, 2022

The convener platform healthAlign has a front-row seat to see how home care is being utilized in Medicare Advantage (MA). We have pretty good insight into what you see take place over a period of time when these public policy changes occur,” Friedell said at HHCN’s Home Care Conference last December.

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Home Health Care

JUNE 27, 2022

It’s also a less regulated industry – but still fragmented – so the strategies being deployed around the country tend to be wide-ranging and fascinating. Care management and home care services together are not a new – or necessarily rare – pairing. But that doesn’t mean Senior Helpers is all in just yet.

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Home Health Care

OCTOBER 31, 2023

This article is a part of your HHCN+ Membership For years, many industry advocates have pushed for more standardization across home care. Home care licensure is largely seen as one of the main avenues to industry standardization. Sign up for HHCN+ to read this exclusive content. Get Membership Already a member?

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Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

"Health professionals will be able to use best-in-class software applications and services in combination with electronic health records to enhance care delivery and decision-making within clinical workflows," said one theme statement. Some of the predictions may be relatively close at hand. " ON THE RECORD.

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Home Health Care

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

“It’s important to address a whole infrastructure, such as increasing support and training for home health aides for home visits, supporting the ability to access and use medical devices and equipment, and most important is updating key Medicaid regulations and payment models,” Reinhard said. North Carolina 42. Florida 44.

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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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Home Health Care

AUGUST 9, 2022

Two large private equity firms have made under-the-radar investments in the self-directed, at-home care enabler Public Partnerships (PPL). States generally like the model because it provides jobs and also usually helps keep patients out of more costly settings – like most home care does.

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Home Health Care

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Home care providers are now required to be licensed by the Maine Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS). These new regulations took effect on Aug. As part of this new licensing requirement, home care agencies will pay an initial application fee of $500, rather than the previous $25 registration fee.

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Home Health Care

OCTOBER 23, 2023

In this Voices Interview, Home Health Care News sits down with Kris Novak, Managing Director, Home Health, Home Care and Hospice, The Braff Group, to share the lessons he’s learned as a buyer of home health and hospice agencies that every seller should know. Delays are never in the seller’s favor.

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Home Health Care

AUGUST 21, 2023

The program is designed to recognize up-and-coming industry members who are shaping the next decade of home health, hospice care, senior housing, skilled nursing and behavioral health. Policy and regulation plays a huge role in access to services and person-centered flexibilities in care. Transformative.

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Home Health Care

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

This article is based on a Home Health Care News discussion with Gary Bachrach, Executive Director of Business Development, Home Care Services at The Joint Commission and Vicki Hoak, Chief Executive Officer at HCAOA. The discussion took place on November 16, 2022, during the HHCN Home Care Conference in Chicago.

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Home Health Care

JULY 24, 2022

Home care providers have always taken measures to ensure that they’re able to hold on to staff – especially amid labor shortages – through clauses in client services contracts prohibiting the direct hire of a caregiver. . The post Why Home Care Providers May Need to Rethink No-Hire Clauses appeared first on Home Health Care News.

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Home Health Care

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Insurance companies selling Medicare Advantage (MA) plans have been facing increased scrutiny from members of Congress and regulators, with critics of the private version of Medicare claiming carriers are profiting far too much.

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Home Health Care

OCTOBER 19, 2023

As the home care industry awaits on the finalized version of that rule, a lot hangs in the balance. Login The post As Non-Compete Ban Hangs In Balance, A Larger Home Care Provider Battle Materializes appeared first on Home Health Care News. Sign up for HHCN+ to read this exclusive content.

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Home Health Care

JANUARY 19, 2023

Home health providers should keep a close eye on the rise and popularity of managed care plans under Medicare Advantage in 2023. That was one of the many messages from Bill Dombi, president of the National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC), during Wednesday’s webinar with Netsmart.

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Home Health Care

JANUARY 19, 2022

But that shouldn’t deter MA interest for home-based care providers, Andy Friedell, the founder and CEO of healthAlign, said at the Home Health Care News Home Care Conference in December. . “We healthAlign is a convener of home-based care services.

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Home Health Care

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Before other states start to consider minimum wage increases for home care workers, it would be beneficial for them to understand what has – and hasn’t – gone well in New York. In the spring of 2022, New York legislators passed a law that gave home care workers an extra $1 per hour above the state’s $15 minimum wage.

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Home Health Care

JANUARY 9, 2024

This article is a part of your HHCN+ Membership The rising costs of home care were a trend in 2022 and 2023. That’s only one trend, of many, that will impact home care providers in the new year. Login The post Top Home Care Trends For 2024 appeared first on Home Health Care News.

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Home Health Care

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

“Medicare Advantage plans were early in understanding and embracing the value of in-home support, but they came at it through a relatively new approach with the contractor — 1099 — model,” he said. Medicaid] has always kind of relied on that regulated agency model that the states have kind of set up around caregivers entering the home.

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Home Health Care

JULY 25, 2023

Login The post Home-Based Care M&A Likely To Be Affected By ‘Warning Shot’ Sent Out By Regulators appeared first on Home Health Care News. Sign up for HHCN+ to read this exclusive content. Get Membership Already a member?

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Home Health Care

DECEMBER 31, 2024

This collaboration designates Griswold as a preferred home care provider nationwide for all inquiries related to Patriot Angels services. Through this partnership, Griswold and Patriot Angels aim to simplify veterans’ access to high-quality home care. Weve had success in home health care for several years, he said.

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Home Health Care

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Home care companies that shy away from offering live-in caregiver services are often trying to avoid the potential legal risk it may bring to their doorsteps. Under the regulations of the Fair Labor Standards Act, a live-in caregiver is somebody who is truly living with their client in their private home. “The

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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

MARCH 19, 2024

Building a successful and sustainable caregiver training program in personal home care demands meticulous planning and execution. “My old business manager used to have a saying: ‘He or she who has the caregivers wins,’” Bob Roth, co-founder and managing partner of Cypress HomeCare Solutions, told Home Health Care News. “In

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Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Thanks to new regulations from the government and subsequent new rules from commercial payers, telemedicine services are being reimbursed. "This electronic bridge combined with our unique capabilities offered through the Penn Medicine home care division provided unparalleled strength in times of uncertainty."

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Home Health Care

MARCH 27, 2023

For the first time ever, two of the largest associations representing the home-based care industry have joined together on a call to action regarding the workforce shortage. Higher prices for care would then lead to more need for Medicaid support, something policymakers would have no choice but to pay attention to.

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