The Rand Blog

MARCH 3, 2023

This weekly recap focuses on why the United States “stayed the unfavorable course” in Afghanistan, the Ohio train derailment, state data on gun deaths, and more.

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Healthy Debate

JUNE 23, 2020

Virtual care is probably the most visible and stark change. The COVID-19 global pandemic has led to many paradigm shifts in the delivery of healthcare.

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Briggs Healthcare

AUGUST 23, 2023

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has an important role to play in ensuring that hospices are providing necessary and critical, high-quality care to our Medicare beneficiaries at the end of life. Hospice, at its core, provides palliative care and support for people who are terminally ill and for their families.

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Home Health Care

OCTOBER 17, 2023

This article is a part of your HHCN+ Membership Everyone in home-based care wants to get further into value- and risk-based contracting. Some providers believe that honing in on just one or two core service lines – like home health and hospice care, for example – is the best way to go. No one can agree on the best way to do so.

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Home Health Care

DECEMBER 19, 2024

For-profit home health agencies, which prioritize profit over patient care, often scale back services in these areas, where travel can be costly and time-consuming. As a result, many rural patients may find themselves without access to home health and hospice care, leading to higher rates of hospitalization and poorer health outcomes.

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Home Health Care

AUGUST 16, 2021

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Home Health Care

JUNE 24, 2024

“We are excited to welcome Haven Hospice into BrightSpring, bolstering our existing hospice care line of business and expanding our hospice services into the CON state of Florida,” BrightSpring President and CEO Jon Rousseau said in a statement. Its 7,000 employees provide care across 30 states.

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Home Health Care

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Eden Health acquires A Plus Hospice Care Eden Health of Northern Nevada has acquired A Plus Hospice Care. Eden Health provides home health, hospice and palliative care services to patients in the Western U.S. Elevance Health also recently acquired Paragon Healthcare , a home-focused infusion provider.

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Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 14, 2024

By evolving from a traditional home healthcare provider to an organization offering a comprehensive range of services – such as in-person visits, virtual care, remote patient monitoring, house calls and hospice care – we are better equipped to meet the needs of our growing aging population, particularly here in Arizona.

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Briggs Healthcare

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare The February 2023 quarterly refresh for the Hospice Quality Reporting Program is now available on Care Compare. For additional information, please see the FY2023 Hospice Wage Index Final Rule at [link].

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Home Health Care

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

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. The Future Leaders Awards program is brought to you in partnership with Homecare Homebase. To see this year’s Future Leaders, visit [link].

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HIT Consultant

JUNE 13, 2023

Healthcare systems can now configure the use of any available standard rules for exchanging healthcare data (FHIR API) fields to generate greater reporting using the AMN Healthcare Language Services portal, which helps healthcare systems adhere to industry compliance and joint commission requirements.

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Home Health Care

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

The post Home-Based Care Organizations Grab Spots On ‘Best Workplaces in Aging Services’ List appeared first on Home Health Care News.

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Home Health Care

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Based in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Amedisys is one of the largest providers of home health and hospice care in the country. Its 521 care centers and 19,000 employees span 37 states and the District of Columbia. UnitedHealth Group’s Optum agreed to acquire Amedisys last June.

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Healthcare ECONOMIST

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Impact of hospice care on family costs. Medication adherence measurement: claims vs. pharmacy fill data. Patients’ free choice of physicians is not always good ” Digital Health funding stats. Academic research on digital health. Impact of VBID for patients with diabetes. Being sick is a full-time job ”.

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Home Health Care

JULY 8, 2024

The Troy, Michigan-based company is already in 15 states and cares for over 70,000 patients under Medicare Advantage (MA) plans and Medicare Accountable Care Organization (ACO) programs. It provides in-home primary care, as well as home health care, hospice care, palliative care, radiology and laboratory services.

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p3care

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

When a patient is treated for a diagnosis associated with hospice care, but the physician participating in the patient’s treatment is not compensated by or employed by Hospice, a GV modifier is added to the claims. In this case, the doctor’s procedure had nothing to do with their training in hospice care.

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Home Health Care

OCTOBER 4, 2023

The other is Optum, which is a diversified health care services provider that delivers primary, specialty, urgent, surgical and home health and hospice care to about 103 million consumers. The first is UnitedHealthcare, which is one of the largest insurance providers in the country.

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Home Health Care

DECEMBER 3, 2021

“Since then, none of these fundamentals have changed: We’re still in the middle of the COVID-19 public health emergency, there is still a national shortage of health care workers, and hospice care remains essential.”. The American Hospital Association (AHA) has likewise called for urgent action.

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HIT Consultant

AUGUST 16, 2023

These donations are part of UnitedHealthcare’s commitment to making a positive impact on the lives of the most underserved and, particularly, the population aging at home.

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Home Health Care

AUGUST 19, 2024

The JV will be branded as Adena Home Health and Hospice, and will focus on caring for seriously and terminally ill patients in South Central and Southern Ohio. This is an exciting and significant step forward in our home health and hospice care delivery,” Adena Chief Clinical Officer Dr. Shaheed Koury said in a statement.

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Home Health Care

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

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. Alex Oosterveen, co-founder and CEO of Miami-based Caribou Health Technologies, has been named a 2024 Future Leader by Home Health Care News.

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Home Health Care

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

People who receive home health care during the last three years of their lives are more likely to utilize hospice care at the end of life. What’s more, these older adults were more likely to use hospice compared to individuals who have never used home health care.

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Home Health Care

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

So far, here’s what Home Health Care News knows about her new company, dubbed VitalCaring Group. VitalCaring will offer a variety of home-based care services including home health care, hospice care, pediatric home care and companion care.

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Home Health Care

AUGUST 22, 2024

Based in Brentwood, Tennessee, Compassus provides home health care, home infusion, palliative care and hospice care. Based in Atlanta, Georgia, Gentiva provides palliative care, hospice care and other home-based care services via about 600 locations across 38 states. You’ve got to have data.”

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Home Health Care

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

“We are excited to welcome Haven Hospice into BrightSpring, expanding our existing hospice services into the CON state of Florida,” BrightSpring President and CEO Jon Rousseau said in a statement. ” Compassus provides home health, home infusion, palliative, hospice and home care services across 30 states.

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Briggs Healthcare

MAY 16, 2022

Background checks for employees of long-term-care facilities are an important safety measure that can help protect some of the facilities’ most vulnerable populations.

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Home Health Care

OCTOBER 4, 2024

Based in Dallas, VitalCaring provides home health and hospice care to patients in the Southern U.S., The program provided personalized therapy to patients with cognitive disorders using Constant Therapy’s digital speech, language and cognitive therapy platform as part of its home-based services for selected patients.

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Healthcare Success

DECEMBER 24, 2024

Memory care and dementia services. Palliative and hospice care for end-of-life planning. Financial planning and insurance education to navigate healthcare costs. Mental health support for aging adults and their caregivers. Chronic disease management. Home healthcare solutions.

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Home Health Care

JUNE 29, 2023

Tennessee Quality Care serves an average daily census of about 1,800 patients through 17 locations, and was formerly owned by American Health Partners. The provider’s biggest service line is home health care, but it also provides private-duty nursing and hospice care. “We

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Home Health Care

OCTOBER 22, 2024

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. The Future Leaders Awards program is brought to you in partnership with Homecare Homebase. To see this year’s Future Leaders, visit [link].

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Home Health Care

MARCH 5, 2024

Additionally, we’ve expanded our virtual care program to reach patients beyond home care episodes. We are enthusiastic about the ongoing development of our virtual care program and are actively exploring opportunities to expand our palliative and hospice care service lines.

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Home Health Care

APRIL 21, 2023

But what we’ve learned in the past few years is we actually can do more clinically complex care at home.” The Brentwood, Tennessee-based Compassus is a provider of home health care, infusion therapy, palliative care and hospice care. It has more than 200 locations across 30 states.

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Home Health Care

MARCH 21, 2024

I will tell you, just as we were in our discussion about hospice care, home health care — which is a growing industry as well — is something that we’re trying to monitor more closely. We are constantly doing program integrity work in this field as well.

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Home Health Care

JUNE 10, 2024

One of the biggest spends in the health care system today are those patients that sit in that middle bucket that don’t qualify for home health and don’t qualify for hospice. Now, the company will be able to focus solely on palliative and hospice care. “A That’s really where palliative should sit.”

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Home Health Care

APRIL 13, 2022

Based in Atlanta, Aveanna delivers home health, private-duty services and hospice care to a broad range of patients in 30 states. Though it is now heavily invested in the senior home health space, it began as one of the nation’s largest at-home pediatric care providers.

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Home Health Care

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Aveanna provides pediatric care, home health care and hospice care to patients in 33 states. The company went public in 2021, transforming from strictly a pediatric care provider to a large home health and hospice enterprise through acquisition.

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